Background colors on the whole lyrics even/odd lines (not only on words)
Is there a way to add background colors on the whole lyrics even/odd lines?
On Style > Text > Lyrics Odd/Even Lines: there is only styles options to add circled/boxed frames on words, but not to the whole line.
I'm currently engraving a lot of song scores with often more than 6 verses, and be able to add something like a light color background on all odd/even lines will improve a lot the readability.
I've attached below an example of a score exported has SVG and tweaked on Scribus to get the kind of result I want.
Might it be a feature request?
Or is there a workaround to achieve that?
Thanks and keep going your good works!
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Comments
Quite a lot of work, but you could use the method described in https://musescore.org/en/node/220071 for this
In reply to Quite a lot of work, but you… by Jojo-Schmitz
Thank you for your quick answer!
I tried this method and it works. The advantage is I can share easily an .mscz containing this layout. But it's indeed a lot of work.
It's still more precise and quick to modify the exported SVG or PDF in a third app. But again not the best scenario.
Do you think it's something long/hard to implement in MuseScore ?
Unfortunately I don't have enough skills to write code in C++, but if you can point me out in the codebase where I should take a look, I might take time someday to dive in to this feature (and this language)...
In reply to Thank you for your quick… by emagnier
The whole text style mechanism is going to change a great deal in the next major version of MuseScore, and I'm not sure which direction exactly, so can't really tell you where to start looking.
But entering a feature request for this might be a first step :-) see https://musescore.org/en/node/add/project_issue?pid=1236
In reply to The whole text style… by Jojo-Schmitz
Sorry for the delay. Feature request added:
https://musescore.org/en/node/266824
English isn't my native language, so feel free to rephrase the description.
Thank you!
In reply to The whole text style… by Jojo-Schmitz
Now that MuseScore 3.0 is out (and MuseScore 3.1 in beta), is it something easiest to implement ?
In reply to Now that MuseScore 3.0 is… by emagnier
#266824: Text styles on lyrics: add background colors on the whole line is still open
I don't think it'd be easy to implement, but at least we have text styles back
It should be possible for the individual notes already, but not for an entire line of lyrics