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lyrics and fonts

I wrote a song in spanish then translated it into english, I would like to keep the spanish lyrics in regular font but italicize the english lyrics so that it doesn't look like the song has two really long verses. I know NWC doesn't do that, but does anyone know of a work-around?

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Reply #1 –
I don't think that you can use 2 fonts but if you wish only to have 2 different looking verses you may use lower case for one and upper case for the other!

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Reply #2 –
The alternate verse could also be entered utilizing the Text Editor command.

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Reply #3 –
Have you thought about two lyric lines and offsetting them (one in positive and one in negative) so that they might be lined up? This might work...

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Reply #4 –
Another susggestion, now that we have 1.70, would be to use two different staves and use the Staff Layering function. You copy the staff with the lyrics to a blank staff below it. Then you can write your lyrics in English on the first staff and in Spanish on the second and offset the placement of the lyrics in the second staff. Then use the layering function and you will have lyrics on one staff in English and the other in Spanish.

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Reply #5 –
I also would opt for Staff Layering. But why couldn't I just have two identical playing staves with their own lyrics? That way the lyrics of BOTH staves would highlight correctly... wouldn't they? Be sure to adjust the settings of the lyrics lines, though, so they don't overlap.

KenJ

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Reply #6 –
I tried making two staves exactly alike and making one italicized and the other regular but when I changed one staff the other changed too... otherwise I'd love to do the stave layering! it would be tonz easier!

by the way all, thanx for all your suggestions.

Bethaney

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Reply #7 –
I know this thread was a couple of years old, but I'd like to add yet another reason to want to have different fonts for different lyric lines:

Multi-alphabet multilanguage lyrics.

For example, in US Eastern Orthodox churches the main Eastern Orthodox Easter Hymn is typically sung in half a dozen languages (or more), to suit the languages of the people in the congregation.  Some languages use the Latin alphabet. But some use the Greek alphabet. Some use Cyrillic.  Some use Arabic! (but for music they use it left-to-right, I'm told)

Transliterations into the Latin alphabet are possible ... but there are not always universally accepted transliteration systems. Best if the original alphabet can be used for each verse.

Which, in NoteWorthy, means changing the font for each verse.

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Reply #8 –
The regular - italic combination is solved using the free "Romital" font, on the Scriptorium:

http://nwc-scriptorium.org/helpful.html#Fonts

That doesn't solve the latin-cyrillic thing, though. If the characters in each language are sufficiently limited (which usually means no diacritical combinations), it might be possible to do a latin-cyrillic combo, for a single style of cyrillic. However, in past discussions of this topic (on other message threads), it seems that a single combo would not suffice. Anyone wanting two languages often wants ten, each with its own character set.

I am reasonably sure that per-line lyric font selection is on the wish list.

You can use different fonts as "user fonts," and place them as text. Text can be attached to words, so that they behave a lot like lyrics. The main difference is that lyrics are placed as a unit in the lyrics editor, but text-as-lyrics must be tediously added, one syllable at a time, to the attached notes.