Highlighting
Hi,
I'm just wondering it it's possible to highlight an actual bar (measure). I want to colour code certain sections - I don't want to change the colour of the notes or the staff - just the old-fashioned way of highlighting key moments in the music for study purposes - hope I'm making sense!
I know it can be done in Sibelius, just haven't had any luck doing it on musescore. Thanks in advance!
Comments
Something like annotations? Will come in a future version (see further down in the link):
https://musescore.org/en/node/126286
In reply to Something like annotations? by kuwitt
The final PR needs more work though, see https://github.com/musescore/MuseScore/pull/2810
In reply to The final PR needs more work by Jojo-Schmitz
Thanks for information. I agree with the OP, this would be a nice and useful feature, but it needs someone with the knowledge and the free capacities ( I'm aware solving bugs have a higher priority) to implement them for a commit.
In reply to The final PR needs more work by Jojo-Schmitz
I would guess that this would not be available until 3.0 because 2.0.3 and earlier would not be able to display it causing unacceptable incompatibility issues.
Until/whenever highlighting is implemented, what about a using a Volta as a marker?. Place over the section, change colour and change line thickness to 1.00.
In reply to Until/whenever highlighting by underquark
The line would be better than a volta since you can make it look like any line and not have side effects.
Regards.
In reply to [inline:Highlighting.png] by Jm6stringer
Press ctrl-shift then drag the line to a new starting point to copy it there. You can then double click it and press shift-right/left arrow to change the end point.
In reply to [inline:Highlighting.png] by Jm6stringer
What a brilliant idea - just tried it out there! I'm trying to colour-code different sections for different parts - this will work a gem until 3 gets here.
thanks for taking the time to explain the steps, very much appreciated and easy to understand.
In reply to [inline:Highlighting.png] by Jm6stringer
Very clever! Some sort of automated scheme along these lines might actually be a better way to go than what we were playing around with last summer.
In reply to [inline:Highlighting.png] by Jm6stringer
That was very helpful. Thanks!
Well done, Jm6stringer. Now I know why the color option has an alpha channel. Neat. As an aside, it seems that the line changes length when width is changed - specifically it increases in length as the width increases. This, I would have thought, is an undesired feature (but, then, lines weren't deigned to be 6 or 20 thick or whatever, I suppose).
In reply to Well done, Jm6stringer. Now I by underquark
Thank you, Sensei... :-)
Also neat is the ability to save the highlight in the lines palette - of a custom workspace - for future use.
(Upon adding it to the palette, if it shows as a blank palette item, don't worry. The next time you load MuseScore it will be there.)
Regards.
In reply to Thank you, Sensei... by Jm6stringer
Great. Find attached a sample palette with green and yellow highlight lines
![PaletteHighlight.png]( "PaletteHighlight.png")
Highlight.mpal
Would love to see a highlight feature that is a property of the measure which would allow changes to the background color of the measure within the top and bottom staff lines. Even a limited selection of transparent colors (yellow, green, cyan) would be ample. I teach and like to point out to students measures of particular importance to a lesson. Will use the line trick until then.
In reply to Would love to see a… by shelley_heard
Something like the mock up here :