Dorico 6 - Staff Size Question

[Bob_Bence]

Greetings All,

I am a brand new Dorico 6 user, moving over after 30+ years with Finale. I have read through the documentation and this forum, but seem to be failing to grasp some fundamental understanding of how staff size works in Dorico. I would like to be able to do something like what you can see in the following screenshot of a Finale file:

Hopefully you can see that the tablature staff is larger than the standard notation staff. I emphasize the tablature staff because, at least in my experience, most dulcimer players pay little if any attention to the standard notation.

Thanks in advance for any help on how to do this.

[Derrek]

IIRC one can control both the spaces between the TAB lines and the size of the TAB fingerings.

Of course, getting Dorico to handle the 6+ and 1+ fingerings is impossible. I did reset the strings so that a 6 fingering does produce the appropriate pitches based on the tuning of a DAD string configuration to a G major scale.

Project-wide engraving options for tablature

You can find options for the project-wide design of tablature notation on the Tablature and Staves pages in Engraving Options.

The options on the Tablature page allow you to change the default direction, position, and alignment of stems, the position of rhythm dots, and the enclosures for chords on tablature. There are also options for tied notes. Many options are informed by the conventions established by different publishers.

On the Staves page, you can change the scale factor that controls the distance between tablature string lines.

[Bob_Bence]

Thanks Derrek! I had found the tablature panel in the Engraving Options, but had not explored the staves panel. That gives me the result I was looking for!