I made a whole font of custom articulations mainly for baroque music to use in Finale. Now that I am migrating from Finale to Dorico, how do I import these custom articulations as well?
Welcome to the forum, @hlomark
There are two issues here. Firstly, having your symbols within Dorico for use in new documents; and importing documents from Finale that use those symbols.
Your symbols would be best created as Playing Techniques in Dorico. These are somewhat like Articulations in Dorico: they sit above (or below) a note; and you can define them to have playback effects (if you have sample libraries that can produce them).
You can create new Playing Techniques in Library > Playing Techniques.
Define your Playing Technique as Type: Glyph (rather than Text), and then in the symbol editor (click on the pencil icon), you can add any glyph from any font you like.
Note that Dorico does already have a large range of Baroque symbols; and there are several more in the Bravura font that aren’t actually assigned to anything within Dorico yet, which you could use in the same way.
(Incidentally, I’d be interested in seeing your font..)
In Finale, an articulation would just be defined as “letter E in my custom font”, and that’s as much information as it passes in the XML. So any XML imports will come into Dorico with a letter E as text above a note. There’s no way to tell Dorico that “when you see Letter E in text above a note, use this Playing Technique instead”. So you will have to delete the letter and apply the PT by hand, I’m afraid.