Colouring different note lengths
I'm putting together a basic online course to teach others how to read music, and starting with rhythms. Ideally I'd like to colour all crotchets one colour, all quavers another, and so on with all different note values. I could do this manually, but it would be really helpful to have it automated. I'm guessing that writing a plug-in would be the most efficient way to do this, but it anyone knows of/can think of another method, do please mention - I'm no good at writing plugins.
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Have Inspector open. Right-click on a note Select > More > Same Note Type and then Change the colour in Inspector.
In reply to Have Ispector open. Right… by underquark
Perfect! Thanks so much. Being fussy now - any quick way of colouring the stems the same colour as the noteheads?
In reply to Perfect! Thanks so much. … by Timothy Coleman
Not that i am aware of. That would require the ability to colour a chord in Inspector but I can't see a way to do that. Or write a plugin - I used to be able to do that but never got around to learning the newer coding requirements. Maybe it could be done by colouring the noteheads, saving as an uncompressed MSCX file and then doing some sort of search and replace on that file but I'll leave that for you to explore.
In reply to Perfect! Thanks so much. … by Timothy Coleman
Select range, rightclick stem,select all similar elements in range selection and color.
In reply to Select range, rightclick… by MichLeon
Oops, stupido! My testcase contained only eights!
Are you on Windows? I could write an AutoHotKey script for it.