Hello, I’m having an issue with tempo markings displaying with a white background in my score. As shown in the attached screenshot, all my metronome indications have a solid white box behind them, which overlaps the staff lines below — even though I didn’t set this manually.
I checked the Paragraph Style for the tempo text, and I noticed that a background color was indeed set (probably inherited from an old project I reused). I removed that color in the Paragraph Styles editor, but the white background still appears in the score and won’t go away. Does anyone know how to fully remove this unwanted background? Is there another setting I might be missing?
Thanks a lot in advance for your help!
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Bonjour !
Check if you don’t have a white background in the Tempo(s) Paragraph Style(s), or in the parent one.
If so, after changing the paragraph style, you’ll have to enter a tempo mark (that you then can delete of course) for the change to take effect in the right hand column.
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The Parent style is probably the issue.
If your Tempo Paragraph style has a “Parent”, then everything switched OFF is the same as the Parent style. So switching off the Background Color will make it “the same as the parent”.
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Thanks for the clarification about the parent style — that was indeed the key.
In my case, the Tempo paragraph style was based on Default Text, which, oddly enough, didn’t have any background color set when I checked it (and other styles based on Default Text didn’t inherit this unwanted white background either…)
So it might have been some kind of internal reset or inheritance glitch, but after explicitly setting the parent to (none) and restarting Dorico, the issue disappeared.
Anyway, problem solved — and thank you for pointing me in the right direction!
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