Text editor options in Engrave mode

The text editor allows you to add and format text.

The text editor opens in the following circumstances:

  • You add or change text that is attached to a staff.

  • You enter text within a text frame.

Figure: Text editor pop-up in Engrave mode

The text editor provides the following options:

  1. Paragraph Style

    Determines the appearance and alignment of the text for a whole paragraph.

    Note

    Text that is attached to a staff is always treated as a single paragraph.

  2. Character Style

    Determines the appearance of selected text.

    Note

    If you use one of the defined character styles in the text editor, the appearance that is defined by the selected paragraph style is overridden.

  3. Font

    Allows you to change the font family of selected text.

  4. Font Style

    Allows you to change the font style of selected text.

  5. Font Size

    Allows you to change the size of selected text.

  6. Font Stretch

    Allows you to make selected text wider or narrower.

  7. Baseline Shift

    Allows you to gradually shift the baseline of selected text up or down.

  8. Letter Spacing

    Allows you to increase/decrease the space between the characters of selected text.

  9. Word Spacing

    Allows you to increase/decrease the space between the words of selected text.

  10. Foreground Color

    Allows you to change the foreground color of selected text.

  11. Background Color

    Allows you to change the background color of selected text.

  12. Alignment

    Allows you to choose the alignment of selected text relative to the rhythmic position of the text in the score. For text in a text frame, the text is aligned along the left margin of a text frame.

    You can choose from the following alignments:

    • Alignment Left

    • Alignment Center

    • Alignment Right

    • Justify

  13. Line Types

    Allows you to show any of the following types of lines, in any combination, on selected text:

    • Underline

    • Overline

    • Strikethrough

  14. Script Types

    Allows you to position selected text in one of the following positions relative to the text on the baseline:

    • Superscript

    • Subscript