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Control Capitalisation in Text Styles

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Description

Your idea

Add options to text styles to affect how text is rendered for:

  • aS entEred (default)
  • lowercase
  • UPPERCASE
  • Title Case
  • Sentence case

and any others that make sense.

Problem to be solved

In common with many vocal scores I put voice names in all-caps, which entails going through and editing all the instrument names. If I could edit the text style for long instrument names, I could just make them all done in my loaded styles.

Prior art

See Microsoft Word for one type of implementation.

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Research direction

Start by locating MuseScore's text-style handling and the rendering path for long instrument names. Define how each requested capitalization mode applies to styled text, including the default and any additional modes, then verify the behavior across the affected text styles.

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Assessment

Tech stack
cpp
Domain
desktop
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Activity status
Quiet
Clarity
Mostly clear
Newbie friendliness
35/100

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