I am pretty sure I have seen this addressed before, but I cannot find any topics on this subject.
It is common in swing arrangements, particularly when the swing is strong, as in a shuffle) to include an indication in the tempo marking, such as the attachment below. I don’t believe this is supported directly in Dorico yet. I thought I recalled a trick where I could use musical characters from the SMUFL font to make this happen, but I don’t see these characters in the standard unicode: http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U1D100.pdf
Can anybody point me to a solution that won’t require fiddling with placement on every part?
TL;DR: you can do it with the system text tool, but it requires a little work. Although once you do it, it’s system text. Maybe Luis would be willing to post his example here. I did it as a playing technique, which was also a pain.
I was able to get this much to work as system text (see attachment). It isn’t great, but it will be sufficient for this project. I added system text, then inserted a combination of regular characters and musical characters from http://w3c.github.io/smufl/gitbook/tables/beamed-groups-of-notes.html
The characters I used were U+E1F0 U+E1F3 = U+E1F0 U+E1F3 U+E202 U+E1F3
Here’s something I came up with using the playing techniques editor. So it’s definitely possible to make all sorts of variations that look pretty good.
I don’t know how to do it the way that Luis did, but if he shares it, I will fiddle around with it and try to make some other variations as needed until a native solution is available.
I looked at Luis’ example and made some adjustments to mine. See the attachment.
Previously, I was using a glyph for that “3”. Now I simply entered the “3” as normal text in the first line, then added everything else in the second line and used the System Text controls to line everything up.
Also, I had been using U+E1F0 as the first note in each group. It should be U+E1F1.
Thanks for sharing! But it is much preferable to achieve this with the text tool. A graphic is difficult to work with (I guess you’d just make a graphic frame, not a bad solution). I’m still holding out for Luis’s example!
These squares will paste as the quintuplet bracket if you set them to Music Text:
I’m at font size 12.0pt
Then carefully adjust the Baseline Shift for each one, as follows:
First bracket -12pt
“5” (the number) 0pt
Second bracket -12.15pt (you’ll need to type this)
(the baseline shift is this thing:)
Hit Enter to start a new line.
Paste the note.
Set baseline shift to 6.00pt.
You should have something that looks like this:
I need to do some work, but I’m sure you’ll figure out the rest
I was so fixated on the details, the actual instruction I put together was wrong. The normal shuffle swing instruction would be like the attached. The reference linked above says to use
