I am using the Bold Font option for fingering appearance, and I want to create a paragraph style to match in order to put right hand alternate fingering in parentheses above the normal fingering. Neither Academico nor Bravura is the correct font, unless there are special characters I am unaware of (I didn’t see them in the glyph maps).
What is the best way to input alternate fingering above that will match the bold font appearance for piano? Thanks!
There are indeed special Bravura characters you’re unaware of.
Quickest way in is Shift-X, right click > Insert Music Text, then navigate to this section.
Excellent. Thank you!!
I recommend letting the font for alternative fingerings be different anyway, for clarity.
That is a good point, Mark.
I’m also wondering if I can set the default positioning of a paragraph style. These custom fingering land way above the staff by default. Maybe there’s a paragraph style I should start with???
So far, all staff text follows the same spacing rules. But this has been requested elsewhere …
If you are using the text tool for alternate fingering, I found that very slow.
Instead, I use user-created Playing Techniques to handle alternate fingering. It goes above the staff and over existing fingering automatically, so at least the upper staff is correct. Then one can move them anywhere one likes for the lower staff. Or one could create a separate set of finger numbers and set it to “under” instead of over when creating the Playing Technique. But I haven’t tried that to see how well that works.
If you are enclosing each one in parentheses, these can be part of each Playing Technique. If you enclose the entire bunch in a single set of parentheses (which I find preferable for sequences of alternate fingerings) then these could also be added as individual Playing Techniques.
Thank you John!
