Showing lyrics in italics

Dorico Pro Help

Product
Dorico Pro
Version
4.3
Language
English
Document type
Webhelp
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You can show individual lyrics in an italic font without changing their paragraph style, lyric type, or staff-relative placement. You can do this for the current layout and frame chain only, or for all layouts and frame chains.

Tip
  • If you want to show lyrics in an italic font because they are intended to be either chorus lyrics or translation lyrics, you can change their lyric type instead.

  • You can use the Edit Lyric dialog to show individual characters in lyrics in italics.

  • If you want all normal lyric lines to appear in an italic font project-wide, you can change the Lyrics paragraph style.

Prerequisite

  • The lower zone is shown.

  • Properties is selected in the lower zone toolbar.

  • If you are in Engrave mode, Graphic Editing Graphic Editing button is selected in the Engrave toolbox.

  • You have chosen the appropriate property scope for local properties.

Procedure

  1. Select the lyrics you want to show in an italic font. You can do this in Write mode and Engrave mode.
  2. In the Properties panel, activate Italic in the Lyrics group.

Result

The selected lyrics are shown in an italic font. If the property scope was set to Locally, this change only takes effect in the current layout and frame chain.