I’ve created a bunch of Playing Techniques.
Now, the composer wants ALL of them a bit smaller.
The option I know I have is to go into each PT, and change its scale.
But is there a better way? For example: since each category of glyphs is based on Bravura, is there a font style that is governing the general size of these symbols? One could change the size of that font style and manage everything in a single operation.
My fear is that, if I were to change the size of the Default Music Text font style, this would destroy many other things as well.
Any idea?
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There’s no dedicated font style for the symbols used in playing techniques, so you’re right that you can’t do this by editing a font style. You might find filtering all the playing techniques and then applying a (say) 90% scale using the Custom scale property is an appropriate approach?
Yes it is, but should I ever need that PT again I would need to perform that again.
I went down the path of changing the scale of the glyph within the PT’s definition.
Important to notice is that if one uses the same symbol in a line’s definition, one needs to scale it there as well as it is not connected with a PT.
Have you ever considered adding existing PTs to the list of available annotations for lines start and end caps?
No, we haven’t considered that, because (from our point of view) that’s backwards: you can draw lines between playing techniques by specifying an appropriate continuation type for grouped playing techniques.
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