I would like to type a 6 with a slash through it.
You can change the appearance of figures in Engraving Options - a bit like chord symbols, you can specify the “contents” of figures in the popover, with their appearance being primarily determined by your default settings.
Many thanks, that did the trick!
I’m trying to write a 6/5 (6 with a slash) and I have no idea how to do it. Engraving Options does not help either. 
Thanks for the reply.
In that way I have almost all 6s and 5s with slashes. I need only one 6.
Your use case is idiosyncratic.
Not my idiosyncrasy, but that of the score I’m trying to reproduce. 
So, there is no way to write a 6 with slash manually?
There’s no easy way to override this for just a single figure, I’m afraid. You may need to resort to using a manual text item instead of real figured bass.
I see.
Thanks!
If your score has some altered 6s with a slash and others with an accidental, then yes I’d class that as idiosyncratic.
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Is there a way to do a 6 with slash in version 4.2?
It’s in Engraving Options > Figured Bass > Accidentals.
A bit further down there are also options for how strokes through 5 and 6 are drawn.
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I came to this thread specifically because I’m working with scores with different signs and interpretations for the same chord/figures: specifically in writing textbook examples about how different composers/traditions have implied the same chords with different figures (and vice-versa). Ideally it would be possible to override individual figures (even just with a general SMuFL picker); second-best would be able to choose a different figure per Flow. In the end I’ve just made multiple versions of the same score and stitched them together in Photoshop.
You can use both slashes and accidentals in the same score.
Also, I’d recommend exporting as vector graphics and then editing in a vector drawing package, or assembling in a DTP app. Not Photoshop, which is a bitmap image editor, and will make everything look craggy, grainy and fuzzy.
Hi Ben – would you be willing to explain how you were able to use both slashes and accidentals in the same score?
(Note that I should’ve explained for Photoshop – I’m currently making content entirely for a website, where Photoshop and other bitmaps editors are the last steps to make sure that the conversion is as non-fuzzy as possible. The promise of perfect SVG images being hosted on the web has vanished with the realization that there is no way to host user-generated SVG w/o opening up cross-site-scripting problems galore. There’s not much point in introducing Illustrator/InkScape/etc. if the next step is a rasterization process anyhow.)
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In addition to the in se discussion of this subject, I can only warmly recommend that you use the GoFigure font designed by Ben for the French continuo.
I work a lot with this French baroque repertoire, and Dorico’s dedicated basso continuo tool (with Bravura font) is totally unable to meet my expectations for this specific type of continuo. There’s nothing in Dorico 5 that’s any better than the original date of this topic.
I used 6+ for the slash and s6 for the accidental. If you haven’t got Note Input Options > Figured Bass set to “Follow Input Literally”, then you’ll need to add an o before it, e.g. o6+
Ah! Thanks Ben, The o or ! override (Follow input literally for this figure) made everything work for me.
The only thing it seems it still won’t follow literally is that the numbers get sorted from highest to lowest, so !b3,7 will still show the 7 above the 3 instead of 3 above 7 found in at least a few scores in the transition period between giving the exact figures, like 10 7 and always using simplified intervals. But that is rare enough I won’t be needing it much!
