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Notation reference
Lyrics
In Dorico Pro, the term lyrics is used for all text that is sung by singers.
Lyrics paragraph styles
There are different paragraph styles for different types of lyrics. You can change different aspects of these paragraph styles in the Paragraph Styles dialog, such as changing their font size to make lyrics appear larger.
Showing lyrics in italics
You can show individual lyrics in an italic font without changing their paragraph style, lyric type, or staff-relative placement. You can do this for the current layout and frame chain only, or for all layouts and frame chains.

Showing lyrics in italics

You can show individual lyrics in an italic font without changing their paragraph style, lyric type, or staff-relative placement. You can do this for the current layout and frame chain only, or for all layouts and frame chains.

Tip

If you want to show lyrics in an italic font because they are intended to be either chorus lyrics or translation lyrics, you can change their lyric type instead.
You can use the Edit Lyric dialog to show individual characters in lyrics in italics.
If you want all normal lyric lines to appear in an italic font project-wide, you can change the Lyrics paragraph style.

Prerequisite

The lower zone is shown.
Properties is selected in the lower zone toolbar.
If you are in Engrave mode, Graphic Editing is selected in the Engrave toolbox.
You have chosen the appropriate property scope for local properties.

Procedure

Select the lyrics you want to show in an italic font. You can do this in Write mode and Engrave mode.
In the Properties panel, activate Italic in the Lyrics group.

Result

The selected lyrics are shown in an italic font. If the property scope was set to Locally, this change only takes effect in the current layout and frame chain.