Text in tempo marks

All types of tempo marks use text, but gradual tempo changes use a different font style to absolute, relative, and reset tempo changes. Tempo marks can have both full and abbreviated text, allowing you to show the one most appropriate in each layout.

This allows you to customize the same tempo mark depending on the requirements of the different types of layouts in your project. For example, if a tempo mark extends off the page in a part layout, you can show the abbreviated text for that tempo mark instead without affecting the length of the tempo mark in the full score layout.

You can change the appearance of fonts used for items in Dorico Pro that use text, but are not text objects or text frames, in the Edit Font Styles dialog.

The following fonts are used for tempo marks:

• Gradual Tempo Text Font: Used for gradual tempo changes, such as rallentando.

• Immediate Tempo Text Font: Used for absolute tempo changes, such as Adagio.

• Metronome Music Text Font: Used for the note value glyphs in metronome marks, such as .

• Metronome Text Font: Used for the equation and numbers in metronome marks, such as =76.