Custom palette and styles
1) Make a custom text style and give it a peculiar font
2) Make a text box and use this custom style to use a particular symbol or phrase.
3) Drag this into your custom palette to be used later
4) Drag from the custom palette back to the score:
Results expected: to be of the same look as before making a custom palette object.
Actual results: The custom text from the palette follows another text style such as Title or Staff.
Is there a way to get the expected results?
It's understandable that the palette has a hard time using a custom style that may or may not be usable on any given score's style settings, but this would very helpful for efficient re-usability of particular symbols from particular fonts.
Comments
Text styles are a score property, so you can't drag such a thing from one score to the palette and then from the pallete to another score
You can however create a style sheet and apply that to a score
In reply to Text styles are a score by Jojo-Schmitz
Another question: I realize that instead of a custom text I can choose one of the main text options that are unused and customize it to my liking. This works fine, but there's one problem.
Is the text's being able to move in relation to a notehead's position available to the user as an option?
For instance a Fingering text will ride the location of the notehead: it won't stay in a static position if the notehead changes. How can this also be mimiced in other text styles? is there an option, or it is contingent upon a setting that isn't accessible to the user? For instance if I find "System Text" to be unused but want it to follow note position, I can't seem to get this to work no matter what vertical placement option I choose. Even if I insert a text and make its text style "Fingering" it won't move along with a notehead like a "native" fingering text will. Any ideas?
In other words practically and simply, I'm trying to use a particular font for brackets as a text and have those brackets be placed a certain way in relation to a notehead, and have it variable in position contingent upon notehead position, and if this can work I'd like it to become a symbol in my palette for ease of access.
In reply to Another question: I realize by worldwideweary
Fingering has a lot of special casing to get a behavior that was agreed upon after much discussion. There is nothing really similar for other elements. The type of the elements as well as the name of the text style are considered in calculating how to do this automatic positioning.
BTW, instead of a custom text *style* when adding elements to a palette, consider using text *properties*. The latter *are* preserved.