Good Morning,
I’m having a small problem with the figured bass tool in Dorico 5.1
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inputting 6+ in the popover, logically, must display a slashed 6 ; I obtain a slash beside the 6 and not on the 6 (cf document joint, measure 1 and 3)
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I can’t obtain a slashed 7 ; Does Dorico not allow this ? (cf. measure 2)
Likewise, I can’t manage to get a “+6”, a sign that is frequently present in eighteenth-century French continuo.
There seems to be a small bug with the + sign on the French keyboard (?).
In Engraver options, I have checked “allow diminished interval”, and forced input. Whatever input method and options you choose, it won’t work.
My configuration :
MacBook Pro 2018 ; OSX Monterey ; 16Gb RAM ; Dorico 5.1.51 (latest version downloaded). Font by default (Bravura). French keyboard.
Can you supply an example document that displays the problem? I’m unable to reproduce this.
You can find attached the culprit. ;o)
Essais Dorico pour forum.dorico (552,4 Ko)
If I reset your Engraving Defaults to “Factory”, then all is well.
Presumably, you have set something that changes the appearance of the figures.
If I use the Library Manager to compare your Engraving Options with the factory defaults, I see this:
You have chosen the “Plain” font, which is a Text font. You need to use the Bold font, which is Bravura.
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Thank you for your reply Ben, but I have not changed anything at all…
weird. (see screen capture for my Library>Fonts options ; all settings are factory ones.
Yes, you’ve changed Engraving Options > Figured Bass > Design.
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No, I assure you, I haven’t changed this option. Very weird.
But, effectively, set “bold” instead of “plain” resolve the problem.
However, this isn’t normal, because if you can choose between bold and plain, it must be possible to enter a continuo in something other than bold (not very beautiful) ; I also note that in the font preferences, you can’t ask for anything other than ‘regular’ in the font weight for Bravura.
Is Bravera a font that only exists in bold ?
Would this setting come into effect only if another font is used?
The naming is perhaps not precise, but you will see them same thing in other parts of the app, such as Time Signatures.
“Plain Font” means “a normal text font”, like Times or Helvetica.
When you choose “Plain font” in the Engraving Options, then “Figured Bass Text Font” is used.
If you choose “Bold” it uses “Figured Bass Font”.
Yes, plain text fonts don’t have the slashed numbers that figured bass uses, but apparently some people want it.
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