Hello! If the answer to this is super easy, I apologize! I’ve tried searching the forums, archives, Youtube tutorials, and the Udemy course to find the answer, but I’m starting to think there might not be one.
I work at a studio where we make a lot of fakebooks and educational materials for young children, and in doing this, we use some techniques that might not fit the norm for professional musicians, but we’ve found it pedagogically sound for what we’re doing! The reason I mention this is because I know most of Dorico’s default features are intuitive to make sense for common sheet music.
The thing that I have had a lot of trouble with is getting Dorico to do what I want by default instead of doing a lot of manual adjustments. The one in the picture above has to do with fingerings. In our fakebook style, we prefer to have the fingering on the notehead side, while the LH and RH are on the stem/beam side. We’ve found that kids usually use the correct fingers more frequently this way. In the engraving options for fingering, as far as I can tell, the only options are for the fingerings to always be on the outer-side of the staves, or to follow the voice direction . . . but when it follows the voice direction it always puts it on the stem/beam side. What I did to achieve the above result is cmd+click each fingering in engrave mode, went into the properties, and put them left of the notehead, then opt+arrow moved them where I needed them. Am I missing something, or is this the only way to achieve what I’m looking for? It takes just a couple of minutes to do it for one line of music, but we’re working on creating a bunch of stuff, and I really want to make it as automatic and seamless as possible. Thanks in advance for any tips or tricks to make this easier. I will also attach the dorico file itself. (Please excuse all of the messy manual adjustments I have for the other pages)
Piano Chord Charts.dorico (942.3 KB)