Font for Hallelujah on Easter Sunday

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Hello,

Someone asked me to write out a Hallelujah for Easter Sunday. Is there a better font in Dorico than using its normal noteheads without stems?

Example:

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I am thinking of faking it with a playing technique built from this glyph:

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Check out a plainchant font I made for this purpose: Cantorum - Notation Central

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One suggestion: for the double puncti, use the interval popover to adding the second note manually, and having weird spacing. Then they touch just like normal neums. It looks better. Just do shift-I, 1.

Here’s a recent example from a worship aid I did for Lent I, where I offered the antiphon in both square notes and transcribed. You can see the double note thing:

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Thanks Dan, that looks fascinating. Have also watched one of the introductory videos - a lot to learn about this way of notating plainchant.
I’ll definitely going to buy once I am into a larger project :+1:t2:

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Thanks James,
Brilliant idea with Shift-I 1.
Also comparing both your versions is something like
plaintchant for dummies.
Very good help for a start.

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I did some experimenting a couple of years ago with notehead sets, then hiding the stem and adjusting some note spacing. Not sure, if it is useful, certainly not as beautiful as the other examples. And obviously playback doesnt work.

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Thank you very much @derKirchenmusiker ,
very much appreciated.