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
Hi.
If You need only this equation than use popover Alt+Shift+X (text for all systems in the full score). Change font to “Opus Metronome Std” and write or copy this text “qaa z=[qp ]e”. You can try similar solution in other fonts and which You have. I found this solution because I received mxl document exported by Sibelius with this.
