I want to change the opacity of the elements (U+E550–U+E55F) but I don’t know where to find them on Dorico.
Thanks.
Welcome to the forum @bernatcucarella ! Why do you want to change the opacity, what’s the end result you want? Do you want to hide the elision slur that is shown automatically when there’s an underscore in a lyric?
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Thanks!
I want to change the opacity because the Lyrics that I want are 40% opacity (grey). So I have the Lyrics in grey and the symbols in black (as in the image). I don’t want to hide it.
If you select the lyric with the elision, right-click and execute Lyrics>Edit Single Lyric, you can replace the underscore with lyricsElisionNarrow (U+E550) and tighten the letter spacing before and after this character. You may need to increase the baseline shift for the entire lyric:
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Thanks, John! But I need to do it automatically, not manually. And I’m searching for a way like change noteheads or other symbol, as easy as that.
There’s no way to do this automatically at present, Bernat. I have made a note that it would make sense to apply the overridden colour to elisions when their associated lyrics are coloured, and we’ll look at implementing that in future, but it’s not something that Dorico currently supports.
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What the purpose of this? 40% grey text will be difficult to read.
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Differentiate between music and lyrics. There are many elements in the score and I want to make it clear what is important.
If you need to distinguish between lyrics and other text on the staff, then there are better ways of doing that.
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Interesting, do you have any example in mind? I have come to the conclusion that this was the best thing to do.
It’s almost a golden rule in typography not use shaded text. When printed, the grey shading is achieved by using dots of black, spaced out. The detail of the curves of the letter are lost in the spaces between the dots.
Often, text items on the score use Bold or Italic styles (depending on the nature of the text). You might use a different font, or a different size from lyrics. The position of the items should also help to differentiate lyrics from other text (-- the latter usually placed above the staff).
I’d recommend using a serif font for lyrics, too. The face you have used is quite wide, so it will push the notes apart to fit the lyrics in.
Your extension lines look a little thick, too. Have you adjusted them?
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And not to sound to glib, but people can definitely tell the difference between lyrics and notes. There really is no need to make the lyric text grey.
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Making lyrics stand out less is best done with a narrow font. Your font appears to be Gotham, which has a good condensed version.
Ok, thanks for the advice, but my team has decided to do it like this after many tests. I’ll keep it in mind.