musescore / musescore/MuseScore
Refinements to styling of individual lyric lines
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Your idea
Since MSS 4.7.0 lyrics lines can be selected and edited individually. While a lyric line (hyphen/extender) should inherit styling from its lyric, this may be overridden. We should ensure that all relevant styling can be applied to a lyric line independently from its lyric.
Problem to be solved
CASE 1: Colour should be individually overridable for the lyric line.
https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/606673a9-5b62-41ee-b896-9c9235181beb
CASE 2: Inherit styling when adding a lyric line to a syllable.
https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/0d5daddd-92d7-443c-be9f-00ad56da604b
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