New user here, playing around with cues. I’ve inserted a cue successfully, and got it to play back appropriately however the inserted cue clef and “return” clef are not inserted with my default musical font. How can I change their font to be the same as my default?
Below you can see that the main bass cleff is Finale Jazz and the two clue- “inserted” cleffs are Bravura. I cannot figure out how to select these cleffs nor if there are any way to set which fonts they use.
There are two ways of dealing with this.
The easy way is to go to Engraving Options > Clefs, and change the scale factor to 19/25ths!
The other way is to go to Library > Music Symbols editor, and change the glyphs for the G clef (small) and F clef (small).
The SMuFL standard has a different glyph for small clefs, but it’s not universally supported, and there are issues with things like OpenType alternates… I could go on…
Thanks, both of those worked and I think I understand what’s going on here. Is there a convenient way to edit the Music Symbols so this would have to be done only once?
Alternatively, is there a good font similar to Jazz that might be available? I use fonts to distinguish between my traditional music sheets and my pop/jazz etc. I know its kinda goofy but I grew up reading jazz charts that were always handwritten.
Good, and similar…? 
Dorico comes with several “handwritten” music fonts. It has the Finale ones – Finale Ash, Finale Broadway – and it’s own Petaluma. There’s also GoldenAge.
However, you’ll see this clef issue in all of them.
Yes, you can save as default any changes you make in the Music Symbols editor, so that those changes will apply to any new documents. (That’s true for Engraving Options, Layout, Paragraph Styles, etc, etc…)
Clicking on the little star icon in the editor will save your changes.
I guess you don’t like Jazz, but I get it. It’s a pretty bad font but as I’m a creature of habit and I’ve been using it over a decade, since it was one of the first “handwritten” styles available and have now used it for hundreds of charts, there is substantial activation energy required to change. I’ll look at some of the ones that come with Dorico.
Do you have a personal recommendation?
Finale Ash is one of the better ones.
Though… I created the SMuFL version of GoldenAge, originally created in the 90s by Don Rice, a copyist of ‘note’.
I made it both a text font and music font all in one!
OT:
With that little phrase you have brilliantly captured the lived experience of every Finale user these past two weeks, @mdlewis6022!
Thanks…I’m going to go with GoldenAge and see how I do. Time to teach an old dog new tricks. It’s quite nice, but doesn’t quite have the feel of the liquor and cigarette stains on well worn charts that I associate with Jazz. Since I’m removed from that these days, I think it will work out just fine.
Besides my motus operandi with any new software is “don’t automate your existing work flow; optimize your workflow to take advantages of your new system”.
Cues in the other programs I’ve used were not so well implemented. This is going to be fun.
@benwiggy, @dspreadbury, et al.: can we get T shirts with this? Bumper stickers? 
Great approach, @mdlewis6022. That will take you far, and i hope you continue to enjoy the process.
I have used Petaluma in some jazz charts with pleasing results, but Ben has me thinking I should check out Finale Ash.
Hi,
Have a look at my NorFonts, I’ve designed several Handwritten an Engraver SMuFL fonts that might be of interest for you.
Thanks, will definitely take a look.
