I’m working on an opera project – thanks to you helpful folks on the Forum, I’ve been able to iron out a lot of wrinkles.
Now, in proof-reading, I am looking at stage directions that I have input using the text popover, and see that some are at 6.8 pts and others are at 5.7 pts even though all are identified as ‘Default text.’ And when I try to change the size by inserting a new value, the popover never accepts it.
Obviously, I don’t understand how this tool works. Could someone please direct me to the right place to unravel this?
That’s great – it worked!
But somebody tell me why. What did I do that required a “reset.”
And I am not directing thing question to you, Jesele, at all – but (to the larger community) what am I doing wrong in the Text popover that font size changes I enter just do not seem to register?
I would recommend setting up a custom paragraph style for “Stage directions”, and apply that paragraph style to all text items that you intend to function as such. That way, you can control their formatting from a single location (ie the Paragraph Styles dialog).
You can assign a key command for adding text items that already come with a specific paragraph style selected, e.g. for styles you use a lot. E.g. so instead of pressing Shift-X which adds staff text with the Default Text paragraph style selected, you could press Shift-Alt/Opt-D to “add stage direction text”.
Documentation for using the text editor options has also been revised in-house to make it clearer that it applies to selected text.
