In Finale I mapped the keyboard characters to finger numbers so that my left hand can rest in a comfortable position on the computer keyboard and I “play in” the fingering as if those fingers were playing on a piano. So my fifth finger rests on the 1 key on the computer keyboard and will produce the 5 fingering number in the music, my fourth finger rests on the 2 key and will produces 4, my third finger rests on 3 and will produce 3, my second finger rests on 4 and will produce 2 and my thumb rests on g and will produce 1.
If I reassign the fingering numbers under Library>Musical Symbols to produce this result, will this affect anything beside finger numbers? I am particularly concerned about the g being assigned to the thumb.
I can imagine this really screwing up the order of fingerings in chords, because Dorico’s clever enough to stack top to bottom or bottom to top dependent on whether it’s a left or right hand staff.
I’m not sure of a good solution, apart from maybe using an external program to remap the keys (I’ve been known to use Karabiner on Mac), but you’d need to turn it on and off when entering or exiting fingering input.
Ah. Thanks, pianoleo. Very glad I asked before trying this. Yes, some kind of external program is what I need. I’ll look into Karabiner as you suggested.
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Anyway, Dorico is certainly smart, but you are free to do the most dummy thing! 
Thanks, Alberto_Maria. I had discovered that one can enter the fingering for each note individually and, as you said, do any crazy thing one wants. So I could try reassigning the numbers after all, but then the popover numbers wouldn’t match the actual output, which would drive one insane very quickly I think.
I am accustomed to having all the needed symbols in one compact place on the keyboard and this has made for a very efficient work style. So while Dorico is amazingly intelligent, the keyboard layout being used for fingering is not ideal for a pianist who inputs the numbers with his left hand and has trouble typing the finger number 1 with his left fifth finger after the associations built up in 70 years of reading piano music.
And the comma being far from the numbers is not ideal for inputting chordal fingering. And the thumb is badly placed ergonomically in line with the other fingers on the 1 computer keyboard key since it falls naturally (with my hand, at least) on the g key. And having to switch to Engrave Mode to move a finger number to the other side of a note (without having to search the properties panel) is also a negative. This should be something that one can do in the popover.
However, Dorico makes up for most of these inefficiencies by its automatic placement of the numbers, which in most cases works wonderfully and one of the main reasons I decided to switch to Dorico.
