Dorico 4.1.10 on Mac. I would like to globally change the Engraving Options so that guitar fingerings show left of the note heads, not above. I have a catalog of dozens of pieces where I used this positioning. The manual says “You can change how all fingerings shown to the left of notes project-wide avoid collisions in the Position section of the Fingering page in Engraving Options.”
I can’t find these settings in there.
I ended up using one of the older files as template. These older files are all done in Dorico pre 4 and I tried to open in 3.5 to check - but 3.5 refuses to run because of licenser issues.
Engraving Options–Fingering–Design–Advanced–Fingerings inside the staff
This would probably make sense to mention as well, I’ve made a note. Thanks for sharing!
I have this checked on:
Engraving Options–Fingering–Design–Advanced–Fingerings inside the staff
But I still get this result:
While I need this:
The Dorico manual said it’s in the Position section.
Have you manually set the property for their position for each note/fingering? The Engraving Option mentioned on that page is about controlling the arrangement of fingerings, i.e. how they avoid colliding with each other when you have a chord with multiple fingerings to the left of noteheads.
When I use my old template file, made in Dorico 3.5, putting in new fingerings appear left to the notes. No need to tinker with individual note properties. There is a global default setting and the manual clearly says so.
The global setting referred to in the manual is about the arrangement of fingerings to the left of chords. The global setting for whether fingerings are allowed in the staff is the one Dan outlined earlier, and which you said was activated (i.e. fingerings are allowed inside the staff).
Is this instrument definitely a fretted instrument, like a guitar? Perhaps you could share the project file itself?
Thanks for your input. There is something missing here. Attached are two files. Same three measures, one with “my” fingering placement and the other with default.
I compared “Engraving Options - Fingerings” of both files. They are identical.
Fingering nope.dorico (557.3 KB)
Fingering yes.dorico (534.0 KB)
Lillie’s bang on the money with her penultimate sentence.
In the Fingering nope file the fretted instrument tuning stuff (Edit Strings and Tuning) in the context menu is greyed out, which tells me that the instrument there isn’t recognised by Dorico as a fretted instrument.
Going into the Edit Instrument Names dialog and Resetting to Factory doesn’t do anything, so I suspect this started as a MusicXML import. Change Instrument (from the menu shown above) to an instrument in the Fretted Instruments section. (And if you don’t want to show staff labels, do that from Layout Options - there’s rarely any need to edit an instrument name so it’s blank.)
Great! Thanks. This file might well have started its life in Finale and then traveled to Dorico. I even do recall noticing the blank instrument field in the Players tab.
Peter
