How do I change the color of a words element?

[maestro58]

I've been experimenting and reading stuff on the internet (including this forum) but can't seem to find any information about how to change the color of text. Below is a code snippet that I thought would work, but doesn't seem to. Is it possible to change the color of the text in a words element? If so, how do I do it?

<direction placement="above">
<direction-type>
<words default-x="0.00" default-y="55" color="#ff0000">This should be red.</words>
</direction-type>
</direction>

[Michael Good]

The letters in the color need to be in uppercase: #FF0000 rather than #ff0000.

Otherwise, that is indeed how you would specify the color change in MusicXML. However, you will also need a MusicXML reader that supports these types of color changes. Many scoring applications don't seem to support this MusicXML feature yet.

[maestro58]

Thank you!