My idea was to use the playing technique popover, bit this seems to be not very comfortable, as I can’t move directly from one note to the next (without leaving the popover and reentering it). Am I missing something? I had expected it to work like sort of entering lyrics. The way I did it was clicking on the note, then clicking on the suitable sign from the playing techniques panel. This is rather tiring when doing it 50 times.
The second question on this topic is how to change the characters‘ size. I found the size was too big, but became reasonable when selecting all the playing techniques and choosing cue notes scaling:
The simplest way is to enter one, using the popover, then just copy it to other locations (select the one you entered and alt-click to paste to other locations).
In the playing technique definition dialog there is a popup menu to choose a Font (not Paragraph) style. Define your own style in menu Library > Font Styles and assign it to your playing techniques.
Hmm, it seems I am still missing something. Indeed I did have a look at the font styles entry in the Library menu. I set the font size to 6pt, but nothing did change. Probably I do not understand what “assign it to your playing techniques” does exactly mean and how I can get this achieved. Give me one more chance, please….
In Library > Font Styles select and duplicate Playing Technique Font (with the button), rename it and change the font size.
Select menu Library > Playing Techniques and there one of your custom techniques
On the right side in the row Type there is a popup menu representing the font, the default is Playing Technique Font. Change it to the new created font.
Ah – the organ heel and toe playing techniques are glyphs, not text, so they’re not affected by the Font Style. @Vadian’s suggestion works great for text playing techniques.
If you want to change the size of these particular playing techniques, you can go into Library > Playing Techniques, find the specific techniques, click the pencil icon under the display of the technique glyph, and then change the scale of the glyph.
Oh, I see. That’s exactly what I have been looking for. I must admit that I would never had found this just by studying the handbook. And I must also confess that I do not have a good idea on what glyphs are
The best way to understand it in this context is “anything that’s not just text”. For example, “con sord.” is a text playing technique, but the upbow and downbow symbols are glyphs. (It’s actually a little more complicated than that, but I think that’s a reasonable approximation.) A glyph playing technique can also include regular text and imported graphics.
I generally thought of a glyph as a “shape,” in size (for Dorico purposes) about the size of one character, although I suppose one could think of a chord symbol as a glyph.
A character in a font is often referred to as a glyph, but it can be any kind of symbol. A playing technique of type glyph gives these options for things you can insert:
Where glyph here is a single character, text is any text string, graphic is an imported png, jpg, or svg, and composite is basically anything defined in Dorico, including things like custom line annotations and other playing techniques.
Thanks to everyone who contributed for the explanations. Apparently, glyphs in Dorico are a powerful tool for creating custom playing instructions and such things. I’ll experiment with them a bit.
button), rename it and change the font size.
