What I’m trying to get is this:
When I go to Engraving Options, I see this:
when I type this:
or this:
I get this:
What am I doing wrong?
Probably a font issue. Library->Font Styles->Chord Symbol Music Text Font, try with Petaluma text or Bravura text.
Jesper
If you switch your Chord Symbols Music Text Font to Bravura Text, does the symbol appear? If it does, then your current chosen font is not fully compatible with Dorico. (All the MakeMusic fonts, including Finale Jazz are not fully SMuFL compatible and are missing many glyphs in the locations that Dorico is looking for them)
If it doesn’t appear when you switch to Bravura Text, then you’ve created an override somewhere and we’ll need to see a file to sleuth it out.
I wasn’t in front of my computer when I posted the above, but just got back and Dorico is looking for that symbol at E870.
Finale Jazz Text doesn’t have that symbol there, so it’s not compatible, but Finale Jazz does. You could try switching your Chord Symbols Music Text Font to Finale Jazz, although that may have other negative side effects. You could also try to redefine that glyph in the Edit Chord Symbol Component dialog box to use the E870 glyph from Finale Jazz. Or just pick a font that is fully SMuFL compatible and will work with Dorico. If you don’t like Bravura or Petaluma, there are lots of fonts available from NorFonts or Notation Central.
Thanks for this. I discovered a solution by going to the Library>Music Fonts>Finale Maestro. Result:
I’m afraid the font mechanism in Dorico has had me mystified since I started using it. If you know of an idiot-proof (and I mean that literally!) video that explains (S-L-O-W-L-Y) how it all works (under the hood, as it were), I would really appreciate it.
Thanks again.
This session by John Barron is on YouTube, so you can slow him down, or even pause him as far and whenever you like.
It’s really MakeMusic’s fault that this is confusing when using their fonts. The Standard Music Font Layout specification (SMuFL) was designed to avoid issues like these. By specifying the exact unicode location of music font glyphs, users should be able swap music fonts to get different looks, while keeping the identical musical information.
Except when MakeMusic converted their fonts to be SMuFL-compatible, they did a crummy job and either left out many, many glyphs or didn’t have them in the correctly prescribed locations. For example, Finale Jazz has 719 glyphs wile Bravura has 3,711. Finale Jazz Text only has 347 glyphs while Bravura Text has 19,183. These are obviously not one-to-one compatible fonts. As MM has stopped all development of Finale, it seems unlikely these fonts will ever be brought up to spec.
There are SMuFL-specified locations for chord symbol elements. These are typically found in the Chord Symbols or Standard Accidentals for Chord Symbols ranges. MakeMusic did not include all of these glyphs in their fonts, so when a user goes to input a chord symbol with one of those absent glyphs, it appears missing in Dorico. It’s sort of like if you wanted to use a text font that was missing the letter n in the correct location so every time you typed your forum handle it came out ewdasom.
Dorico does include ways for you to work around this and redefine the glyph in the Edit Chord Symbol Component window, but life is much easier if you simply use a font that is fully SMuFL-compatible. I know when Finale went under people were caught mid-project and needed to have things match existing work, but continuing to use incompatible fonts makes chord symbol input in Dorico much more of a headache than it needs to be. This all “just works” when the font has all the glyphs in the correct SMuFL locations.
In addition to the font choice that others have mentioned - Engraving Options has choices for appearance of the circles - baseline, subscript or superscript.