Change default font, text styles and settings?
Some questions about text styles in version 1.3:
1. Is there a way to change the default typeface for a score? All I can find are options to change the font of individual elements, not of all text at once.
I've read this http://musescore.org/en/node/12977, but that dates from some time ago.
2. When I create a new score, setting another typeface for an element doesn't work on existing elements, only on new ones (if it works at all).
For example, when I change the Title typeface (via menu > text styles), it doesn't change the existing title, but I need to create a new Title element (via menu > create > text > title) to use the new typeface, or use the type editor when the Title text is selected. Also the style of instrument names can't be changed at all unless they're created all over again...
Is this normal behaviour?
3. After changing styles and other element settings (notespaces etc), how can I change everything back to the default MuseScore style? Is there a default style template?
I'm using a Mac (OS X 10.6 and 10.7)
Comments
ad 1: there is no one typeface, but a bunch of different text types, all with their own typeface, so you'd have to change them all
ad 2: For some text styles changes take effect immediately, for others after a reload and for some only for new texts, this is a known issue in 1.x and should be fix in the next version
ad 3: just create a new score, without using a template. Then do Edit->Style->Save Style... and voila you've saved a default style. If you want to be extra sure, do a factory reset first.
To revert to that default style you'd just do Edit->Style->Load Style...
Thanks for your quick and clear reaction!
Good to hear it's a known issue and it'll be fixed.
In the thread mentioned above it says 'default font will be part of 2.0'... Hopefully it will, would make life so much easier.
Didn't think of saving the default style as a loadable style... :-)
Thanks.
In reply to Hopefully it will by bxwebber
To be clear - it's still going to be - and *has* to be - the case that different types of elements will have different fonts. Otherwise dynamics wouldn't look like dynamics, the "3" in a triplet would be the same as a chord symbol, rehearsal marks would be indistinguishable from lyrics, etc. So it's necessary that there be individual control over the text style for different element types. That is not going to change, nor should it.
What *is* changing for 2.0 is that changing text style for a given element type will affect *existing* elements in your score as well as elements not yet created - in 1.3, text style changes only affect the latter. So you need to separately go in and use Text Properties to change font for existing elements.
Also, 1.3 already has the ability to save and load "style" files, so once you get the various different text styles the way you want, you can save one, then load it into each newly created score. What 2.0 will add is the ability to specific a given style file as the default, so new scores get that style automatically.
Meanwhile, in 1.3, you can also save an score (with the styles set up as you like) in your templates folder, and then create new scores from template rather than from scratch.
In reply to To be clear - it's still by Marc Sabatella
Okay, thanks for your explanation! It's good to see what we can expect.
It'll already make a big difference when the bugs are solved.
In reply to To be clear - it's still by Marc Sabatella
Hello,
I am using Musescore 2.0.2 and I don't succeed in changing the default style.
For example, I want all scores to start with a specific font for the title.
When I change the "Style->Text->Title->Font" it does not remain the same when I create a new score.
What should I do to change the default font for the title, for example?
In reply to Hello, I am using Musescore by Oded Violin
The style options apply to the current score only. The usual way to affect future scores would be to save a score as a template then use that template for future scores, so you can have different defaults for different typs of scores. If you truly know that every score of every type you intend to create will want the same style settings, though, you can use Style / Save to save your style to a file, then specify that style file as as the default in Edit / Preferences / Score.
In reply to The style options apply to by Marc Sabatella
Thanks!
That's exactly what I needed.