Changing Gradual Dynamic Text

Hi all. I’ve recently taken to using only Spanish (or mostly Spanish) for my scores, since Spanish and Italian are pretty similar and I’d like to see more Spanish representation in music. My specific problem today is with cresc. and dim/decresc.

What I’ve been doing is instead of using the cresc. gradual dynamic option in the Dynamics panel, I’ve been using Shift+X, typing in “crec.” (instead of cresc.) and using that are creciendo, which works for the most part but doesn’t apply in playback, nor does it format like a gradual dynamic would.

Is there any way to update the default text for that item, to create a new item that acts the same but has crec. in place of cresc., or any better way to do this?

Thank you!

I can’t remember but if you add cresc. as a normal dynamic mark, you might be able to select it, open Properties, and change the text manually.

If you can do this, you might be able to select a bunch of them and do them at once.