I cannot find out the way how to write register-symbols for Accordion. I found the appropriate glyphs by chance while creating new accidentals, they where somewhere in Bravura font - but how is it possible to use them as playing techniques in the music?
thank you very much for that speedy answer - that was the solution! It’s just a bit complicated to get access to these common symbols. But: I’m new with Dorico (using for 20 years Sibelius) - and step by step after having copied some of my solo-pieces for trombone, I understand the concept and I am very impressed: it’s a fantastic software - I hope very much that the suggestions from the contemporary music colleagues (staff styles e.g.) will be implemented soon, the microtonal possibilities are just great, never seen something like it before.
Accordion register symbols can be entered as music text (I think Music Text is a new feature in Dorico 4, so it is probably not available in previous versions).
Select a note.
Press shift-X.
Right-click at the blinking insertion point and choose Insert Music Text… (the only option)
A window entitled Insert Music Symbol will open up.
Click on Recently used. A long drop-down menu will appear.
Type acc to select Accordion (U+E8A0-U+E8DF) and press Enter. A gallery of various accordion symbols will appear.
The selected symbol should now appear above the note.
Because it has been entered as text, you can change the size of the symbol by selecting it and choosing a different point size.
Yes, it’s true, thanks. The problem is that if you want to insert several symbols from the same set (that are not in the recent used symbols selection) the music character picker is a little bit awkward. It would be much better that it allowed to pick several symbols without quitting it each time as now occurs, I think. If you copy the symbols from the web this process is very fast.
The second screenshot show a sample of the drop-down list of categories. Accordion (U+E8A0-U+E8DF) was highlighted when I typed acc while that list was being displayed.