Fingering placement at the start/end of a beamed group

When a fingering appears on:

  • the stem side
  • of either
    • the last note of a down-stemmed beam group or
    • the first note of an up-stemmed beam group
  • and the stem extends outside the staff lines,

…Dorico’s placement of the fingering looks crowded to my eye:

Screen Shot 2021-05-24 at 10.14.45 AM

I’d prefer the finger to be more on a line with other fingerings in the beam group:

Screen Shot 2021-05-24 at 10.37.04 AM

Is there an engraving option for this, so I can avoid manually fixing every such fingering? (If there is such an option, I can’t find it.)

FWIW, every publisher I checked follows my preferred approach:

Hi,
See R.H. guitar fingerings alignment - #2 by dspreadbury

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