global font size

[rbsalyer]

I have apiece of music...I want the lyrics to be larger in size yet still be attached to the individual notes...

so I went to the interweb and tried to make this work...no go...how can i change the font size from 12 to 14 or even 16?

thanks...r.b


To set the font for lyrics globally

Choose Document > Document Options > Fonts. The Font options appear. See Document Options-Fonts for more details.
From the pop-up menu for lyrics, select the lyric type you want to change (Verse, Chorus, or Section).
Click Set Font. The Font dialog box appears.
Select the type style you want for your lyrics. Under normal circumstances, Finale scales the type size of lyrics proportionally with the piece; if you reduce the music to half size (using the Resize tool), the lyrics also shrink to half size.
If you’d prefer to specify a fixed size for the lyrics, so the text won’t vary with the size of the notes, select the Fixed Size checkbox.

Click OK (or press RETURN) twice. Use this method to set the primary font for your lyrics. If there are occasional variations within this primary font, see To change fonts within a lyric.

[motet]

Maybe that only applies to Lyrics you have yet to enter. Instead, open the Lyrics window, select all, and set the size from the pull-down menu there.

[rbsalyer]

I went to lyrics window...selectedd all and there's no menu item to change font size....

[zuill]

Maybe that option is only available in Windows. There are other utilities for changing existing fonts. You might try one of those.

Zuill

P.S.: I looked in the Mac manual, and it says there are both Edit and Text options at the top of the Lyrics window, but the picture they have does not show those 2 options. I would report this as a documentation error to MakeMusic.

P.P.S.: Aha. I misread the instructions. It says they are in the Menu Bar at the top of the screen. Since I don't have a Mac, I can't confirm where those options actually are.

[Bill Stevens]

>> I went to lyrics window...selectedd all and there's no menu item to change font size....

You select the lyrics in that window and then you can use shift-cmd-period to increase the font size, or go to the Text menu at the top of the screen.

::: Bill

[miker]

To expand on what Bill said, once you have "selected all" in the lyrics window, you can also go to the Text Menu > Font Settings… where you can select the font, the size, the style, and "Fixed size" if you want it.

[rbsalyer]

I want to thank everyone for the help..and it worked...I selected all the text in the lyrics window...the operned the opened the text box editor window and changed the font size to whatever I wanted. Worked very well...

new problem...the original lyrics spacing was based upon the 12 point type...when I changed the type size to 16...then the words ended up falling on top of each other...

I've looked and looked..cannot find a way to space the verse words based upon the larger font....

help me out please...this project is almost done....

rb

[Peter Thomsen]

… I've looked and looked.…cannot find a way to space the verse words based upon the larger font …

Music Spacing can take care of this.

1) Take a look in
Document menu > Document Options > Music Spacing
In the pane {Avoid Collision of:}, make sure that the option Lyrics is checked.

2) Selection Tool.
Select the region with the larger 16pt size.
Apply Music Spacing. Update Layout.
If the words still collide, consider these two options (or a combination of the two):
- Reduce the scaling percentage by a few %.
- Unlock the systems, and make a layout with fewer measures in each system.