Lyrics colour
I deal in a lot of hymns and church music. While inputting multiple verses under each other, I used to colour the lyrics to odd verses one colour, even verses another colour so it was easy for musiciand to pick up the right lyrice on each stave (see attached). I did this my highlighting one lyric on the stave, right click/text style/select colour/apply and hey presto. This option has gone in MuseScore 3 and doesn't seem to be available in the text style changes tab. HELP!
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the settings are still there, but don't work for odd lyrics, see #280613: Color not available as a text style setting
Fascinating to find someone else who does exactly the same as I do - for the same purpose! I've found a workaround. Select a line of lyrics, right click, > select > more. There should be a popup with a box showing "Element Type" as "Lyrics", and another box offering the "same subtype", which should have an entry "Verse "n" ". You check the box by the subtype, click "ok", then in the Inspector you can change the colour of all lyrics in that verse.
You do have to select each line of lyrics one at a time, so it's not as powerful as the format/style/text styles/Lyric odd lines or Lyric even lines - but that has been identified as a bug and no doubt will get fixed in due course.
In reply to Fascinating to find someone… by gregtrimmer
Thanks for your help, let's hope it gets fixed soon!
In reply to Thanks for your help, let's… by Castle Church
Hi all, Does anyone know how to highlight just one word in the lyrics? I am sending some singers a lyric change and just want to change the color of one word in Muse Score 3. I do it with the inspector but nothing happens. Advice?
In reply to Hi all, Does anyone know how… by kathleensings
It seems hightlighting doesn't work. You will need to use an idea similar to https://musescore.org/en/node/220071 to highlight any text.
In reply to It seems hightlighting doesn… by mike320
Thank you.
In reply to Thank you. by kathleensings
After further testing I found the secret to make highlight work.
Select a frame type (circle or square)
Click the rectangle next to Highlight
In this dialog,
* select you color
* set the Alpha Channel to something greater than 0. The higher the number the darker the highlight. A good number is color dependent.
Note: I was writing a bug report and verifying steps to reproduce the problem and noticed the alpha defaults to 0.
You don't like People with deuteranomaly and protanomaly do you? LOL.
In reply to You don't like People with… by Unknown Prodigy
Why the labels? (speaking as an anomalous trichromat).
Does anyone know if it's possible to colour lyrics seperately? I want to write below each note it's name (C - D - E...) and I want it on the corresponding colour: C red, D orange, E yellow and so forth.
In reply to Does anyone know if it's… by Yiannis Vamvakas
That's sure possible
In reply to That's sure possible by Jojo-Schmitz
How?
In reply to How? by Yiannis Vamvakas
select the syllable and in the properties tab change its color
In reply to select the syllable and in… by Jojo-Schmitz
In Musescore 4 in the properties tab there are no color options.
In reply to In Musescore 4 in the… by Yiannis Vamvakas
There sure is:
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In reply to There sure is: [inline… by Jojo-Schmitz
Thank you so much. Apparently, it is under Properties tab, then choose Appearance.