Styling instrument changes

Dorico
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Is it possible in Dorico to apply different style to instrument change text, such as colour, or a box around (similar to rehearsal marks) ? I can’t find a way, and the instrument changes don’t appear to be selectable in engrave mode. I’d find it incredibly useful because I score a lot of music for a single keyboard player with many patch (instrument) changes, sometimes every few bars, and it would be great if they could be made to jump out of the page a bit more. My ideal would be a box around, like rehearsal marks, with a different colour background.

Neil

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I don’t think there is an option to create boxed text, but you get close to what you asked for with Paragraph Styles in the Engrave menu.

Para style.png
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Synths.png
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Fantastic, Rob, thank-you! I had somehow overlooked that dialog entirely!!

Neil

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Yes, boxes please!!!

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▎ test▕
faux box test.png

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▏test▕
here it works almost perfectly
font: Arial (unfortunately Helvetica has different line height)
faux box test Arial - kind of good box.png

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and with the option to have the box in the parts only and not the score please. thx.
(the font trick does it in both).

fyi, I see this has been continued into this thread :