Set default TEXT font on score creation
Often, we use custom fonts(i.e. not standard font and not museJazz).
One has to change every elements text manually, maybe it would be possible to have a standard text font in the "new score" wizard.
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I would not encourage this. Text fonts are not embedded in score files and so a MuseScore file will not look the same on a different computer without the font installed. In consequence, I think it's bad idea to make it easy to change the default font of all the texts for a system font.
I don't think I'd favor cluttering the Create New Score wizard with an option most people would never use. But it should be a very simple matter to create a plugin that goes in to a score after it has been created and replace the font face in all relevant text styles - assuming the plugin framework is now sufficiently rich to allow this. I think it might be?
BTW, you can already save a style, and even set that style to be the default. So if you have a favorite text font, then even without a plugin, you only have to go through the trouble of manually changing the fonts once and then you're done forever (or until the next major release of MuseScore that breaks style files, anyhow).
In reply to I don't think I'd favor by Marc Sabatella
Nice solution! To use a style... simple, actually.
In reply to Nice solution! To use a by TromboRafi
I can see the reasoning behind not adding this in the wizard.
However, changing the font everytime for each score I do isn't pleasant. Perhaps a way to set a default font to all relevant text elements would not only be useful to me?
In reply to I can see the reasoning by TromboRafi
As I already said, once you define a style, you can set it to be the default for all new scores via Preferences. Or you could save it as a template. Either way, it's a set-it-once-and-forget-it thing; you wouldn't have to do anything special on each score after that.
In reply to As I already said, once you by Marc Sabatella
Yes, but I would need to do all again if I wanted a different font.
In reply to Yes, but I would need to do by TromboRafi
OK, but how often it is it that one really needs to globally change all fonts for a score, to something other than one's personal favorite font? I mean really, this can't happen often for most people - if at all. And in any event, the plugin idea I also mentionined in my earlier response should do the trick if you really do need this.
In reply to OK, but how often it is it by Marc Sabatella
Ok, I see.