Good morning,
I am currently working on a critical edition, and it would be great to add editorial brackets [square brackets] on articulations, dynamics and so on. I read in an older post that this is not supported yet in Dorico, but I was wondering if someone could give me a workaround in order to be able to include these editorial marks.
Thank you!
You can make Playing Techniques with multiple glyphs.
I’ve used the accidentals’ brackets.
Make sure you change the “type” to Glyph:
Ben,
I’m checking to see if there is still not a straightforward way to put editorial brackets on dynamics. I see that it is possible on fingering and accidentals, but I need dynamics. Thanks.
::: Bill
P.S. Well, I see I can create brackets as prefix and suffix. That will be a lot of work in a lengthy score unless I am missing an easier solution.
There is a property to put parentheses around dynamics.
If you want square brackets, then as you say, you can add the brackets as prefixes and suffixes. Once you’ve created one instance of each dynamic, you can Alt-click it to copy to new location. (And there’s things like Duplicate to Staff Below, which is well worth a key shortcut.)
Thanks Ben. That approach works, but the results are inconsistent. You can see below that [f] looks good, but spacing on [mf] and [p] are messy. I expect Dorico will get around to this one day.
::: Bill
This is influenced by where the “margins” of the glyph are; and there may be reasons why those margins are as they are.
(There have been discussions about variation in the distance of suffix text,
e.g. between "f dolce" and “p dolce”.)
FWIW, I have recently been working on this issue with Sebastian, and this is my current build:
Still not very tight, but better than it was.
However – in experimenting, I’ve found that you can enter [ mp ] into the popover (with spaces between), which may be quicker than using the properties panel.
Thanks for sticking with this. I have the current version of Dorico; was the most recent Sebastian be included in that? And here’s an oddity: the example I posted above had italicized brackets but now they are straight.
Sorry – as the developer of Sebastian, it’s the build I’m working on!!
There is a newer version than the one which ships with Dorico 5, which does include some improvements.
https://github.com/fkretlow/sebastian/releases/download/v.1.20d/Sebastian.1.20.zip
Dorico uses the Dynamic Text Font style for suffixes, prefixes – and also for the parentheses that it adds from the panel switch. If you switched font, it may have changed the default text font.
With a lot of hand-holding from Ben I was able to sort out how to make these editorial brackets.
::: Bill
I have made a font called “Bracketura”, which has bracketed versions of these symbols as one glyph.
