D2.1 Different Sizes (Parts/Full Score) for Metronome Text Fonts ?

Dorico
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Hi,

my music cues consists of several Metronome Marks (Quarter = 120 etc.) almost every 3 to 4 Bars changing.

“Engrave - Font Styles - Metronome Music Text Font & Metronome Text Font” give me the option to choose a good size for the scores. The current problem I have is that the Size seems Ok for The Full Score after tweaking, but is WAY TO BIIIG for the single parts.

There seems to be no control like bar number sizes for (parts/score) to independently choose Metronome Sizes for parts & scores in the Setup-Layout Options.

Any Ideas or Workaround of how I could achieve different Metronome Sizes ?

Thanks, Lokotus

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Do you have it set to Staff Relative, or Absolute? Sounds like that’s the problem. You want Absolute.

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I have this same problem, so I choose a size that is acceptable for both, but yes, in the main score it’s too small while in the part it’s too big.

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We do plan to extend the size properties of font styles so that, like paragraph styles, they can specify a different size in the score and part layouts. I can’t say for sure when this will be done, though.

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Hi!

Is it still something that’s not possible do by now?



I changed the scale of the metronome mark in one individual part, then I clicked on propagate properties, but it affects the score also. And if I change the property in the score, then it will cancel the scale the change in the individual parts. I don’t really understand how it behaves.

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Set the font style to suit the part layouts, then scale the individual tempo marks in the score layout. That way there’s nothing to propagate (assuming you only have one score layout).

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That makes more sense indeed, thanks for the tip!

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Any progress on this?

It would be very helpful to be able to specify different sizes in score and parts for tempos and rehearsal marks.

I’m curious as to why these aren’t considered paragraph styles.

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Hi,
Surely I am wrong, but it seems to me that the behaviour of the “Absolute” and “Relative” options for metronome markings size is inverted.
If I set the metronome size to Absolute, I have a bigger metronome marking in the score and a smaller one in the parts. If I set it to Relative, I have the same size for the score and parts.
In other words, it seems that when set to “Absolute” the actual resulting size is relative to the staff size.
Just for info, in my score, in Setup mode, the line spacing for the score is 1.2mm and for the parts 1.75mm.

In addition to this subject, it would be also useful to have a separate Vertical position option for Score and Parts…in this way, those using larger metronome markings in the score could have a better vertical position for parts.
Thanks

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I would imagine that it just looks bigger in the score because the rastral size of the score layout is smaller so therefore the ‘absolute’ text looks bigger than against the larger parts staff… That’s kind of what the point of relative sizes is, they scale with the rastral size…

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