Hi everyone,
for the past couple of days I’ve been trying to find this embouchure symbol for flute (useful for glissandi), but I haven’t come across anything similar that I could adapt. The idea is to convey the intention clearly without having to write too much about the technique.
Has anyone used something similar as a glyph? Could you recommend any suitable fonts?
Many thanks for your help!
The normal symbol looks like U+E661. Dorico doesn’t have any way to rotate symbols though, other than using a line. If you have some font software you could make a font using that glyph that contains the rotations you need. Or add those symbols after exporting a PDF.
Thank you @FredGUnn for your reply.
Unfortunately, I don’t have any software to rotate fonts (could the Affinity suite be useful for this?). Could you help me understand how to modify this symbol so I can add it to my score? I would be very grateful.
If Affinity can open a PDF, then you could export a PDF from Dorico and add the rotated symbols in Affinity after export.
You can do it in Dorico by rotating an “invisible” line but positioning will be finicky with a bunch of trial and error.
An “invisible” line is one that uses a repeated symbol of nothing or a Dash-gap pattern of 0;0. Don’t use a line width of 0 as that will export as a hairline.
I’m not very good at creating fonts, but here’s a try. Uses a b c d e for the symbols.
Jesper
embouchure-Regular.ttf.zip (2.1 KB)
