Almost Paradise.dorico (1.5 MB)
I can’t seem to get the lyrics to be right under the staff.
- Your frames are too tight; you need to change the page size or reduce the staff size:
- Your lyrics are Bravura. That’s wrong: Bravura is for music symbols. The font’s metrics include a lot of padding. Change to something like Academico, or another “normal” lyric font. When I un-toggle the lyrics, they switch back to Golden Age (which is now too close because of your settings in Engraving Options):
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Thanks, Dan! I am just not familiar with all of the huge number of fonts and how they act. Frustrating at thimes.
I understand. In general, avoid overrides like the toggle on lyrics. Feel free to ask specific questions here. You’ll master Dorico the same way you master anything else: one bit of information at a time.
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Hi Dan,
How do I figure out which font works from the pull down menu? I went to Paragraph Styles, clicked on Font and there are about 50 choices. I liked the way Bravura looked. Shouldn’t Dorico give choices that only work for this particular Paragraph Style? When I saw how far down this font was from the staff, I went to Engraving Options to minimize the space. To no avail.
Is there a particular reason not use the Dorico default (Academico) which works well alongside Bravura?
Bravura is a font, albeit a font with a different function. Dorico doesn’t hide fonts from any lists, nor do any other programs that I’m aware of. If a font is installed on your computer, it’s “available,” regardless of whether it’s the right tool for the job!
Most folks here tend to gravitate towards specific fonts that fit their desired style. I use Minion Pro and Crimson Pro quite a bit, and occasionally a few others. As @Janus says, Academico is the text font bundled with Dorico as the default pairing for Bravura.
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I like Golden Age for my music font. But I don’t like the lyric font for Golden Age. I was rushing to get this to a client and Bravura looked good. I ended up manually editing the Bravura font to fit my score. Not the fastest workflow, but I had painted myself into a corner. I’m still learning. Thank you to the community here that helps!!
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Bravura is a music font, not a text font. It doesn’t have any Alphabetic characters.
If you use it for text you’ll either get a substitution by the OS (probably Helvetica), or blank rectangles.
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I used it for lyrics and it was Alphabetic characters. It was not fitting bellow the staff properly, which is why I came here in the first place.