Bug - Cello character used for left-hand Thumb guitar fingering

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Greetings!

At some point in the last several weeks, my left-hand thumb (t) fingering indication has changed from a “t” to a strange character (see attached picture). This happens when I open old projects that were fine, as well as new projects. I am using the default font for the “Fingering Font” (“Bravura”). Any ideas?

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Thanks,
Tom Kearney

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I don’t know about guitarists, but that character is familiar to any cellist as ‘thumb’.

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Hmmm… that’s interesting! But not very helpful for a guitarist (ha ha!).

Maybe there’s a bug (I’m running the latest Dorico 5 Pro Version 5.1.10.2081, on Windows 11) that is co-mingling Cello and Guitar? I know it used to work at some point in the recent past!

I also installed the “Metrico” font several weeks ago (to get a “swing” legend). Maybe that’s causing problems?

Tom

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I’ve been doing some testing:

  • un-installed “Metrico” - no change.
  • created a single-cello project - get cello thumb glyph
  • created a single guitar project - get cello thumb glyph
  • created a test with Dorico Pro 4 - added a cello and a guitar - it works as expected:
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So, it looks like something is broken in Dorico 5 Pro Version 5.1.10.2081

I would appreciate it if someone could create a tiny test project with a guitar, and test the left-hand fingering…

Tom

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One more data point: I found a printout from January 9, 2024, which has the correct “T” for the thumb… so it seems that the 5.1.10 update on January 18 has the problem.

Tom

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Thanks for reporting this, Tom. I confirm the problem, and we’ll take care of this as soon as possible.

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Thank you, Daniel!

One of brothers recently had open-heart surgery (he’s doing well). I want to print out about ten transcriptions of solo guitar songs I’ve done in the past two years, and put them in a three-ring binder to send to him. He helped me learn some of these songs about fifty years ago, when I was just learning guitar.

I’m sure he’ll enjoy playing from the professional-looking Dorico printouts! By the way, I learned yesterday how to set the margins for left and right sides, so the holes don’t occlude the staffs! Wonderful!

Thanks again,
Tom

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Update to 5.1.20: it looks as if @dspreadbury has once again kept his promise :wink::pray:

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Yes - and it works perfectly, as expected!

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Daniel - 5.1.20 fixed those “cello thumbs” perfectly.

Thank you so much!

I’m printing scores for my brother right now.

Tom