Changing the paragraph style used for lyrics

Dorico Pro Help

Product
Dorico Pro
Version
5.1
Language
English
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Webhelp
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You can change the paragraph style used for individual lyrics; for example, if you want to use narrower paragraph styles for lyrics on tightly spaced systems. You can do this for the current layout and frame chain only, or for all layouts and frame chains.

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 whose paragraph style you want to change. You can do this in Write mode and Engrave mode.
  2. In the Properties panel, activate Paragraph style in the Lyrics group.
  3. Select a paragraph style from the menu.

Result

The paragraph style used for the selected lyrics is changed. This also affects hyphens shown after selected lyrics, and optionally verse numbers shown before selected lyrics, if verse numbers use the same paragraph style as normal lyrics.

If the property scope was set to Locally, this change only takes effect in the current layout and frame chain.

Tip

You can edit the formatting of the paragraph styles used for lyrics in the Paragraph Styles dialog.