I’m asking about an extra option to display instrument transposition in staff labels, whether it is there already or if it will be available later.
What I want to do is have the transposition after the instrument name, with no parentheses and also with no extra “in” appearing. For instance, I have two basses in my current score: Bass Eb and Bass Bb (with a flat symbol replacing the small b of course). Currently I can display these as either “Bass in Eb” or “Bass (Eb)”, but not “Bass Eb”, which is what I want.
I do know of the option to display player names instead of instrument name, but I can’t seem to be able to satisfyingly type the flat symbol there. I tried both {@flat@} and Unicode characters, the former doesn’t seem to work, the latter isn’t visually appealing because of some vertical offsetting. A picture of this is included below.
I thought this would be very simple to achieve, and instead I have been busy with this for an hour now.
I would just edit the Instrument Name instead of using a Player Name. Copy and paste the flat from the SMuFL site, change the style of that glyph to Music Text, done!
Thanks for this, it works up to some degree. I can indeed copy the glyph and make it visible using Music Text style, but I still needed to do some scaling and vertical offsetting. This is possible when editing the Instrument Name (and not when editing Player Name) so it does look good now, but I wondered if you had that as well.
Yeah, if you’re just using the standard Bravura Text you’ll probably need to do some additional positioning with this. (I actually created my own font that I use for the Music Text character style that not only fixes the baseline positioning issue, but also uses the glyph from this SMuFL range instead, as that is the glyph that is designed to go with text.)
Use U+266D for a flat sign that is positioned appropriately by default.
I have mode a note of the requirement to show the transposition at the end of the staff label without “in” or parentheses, and we’ll try to accommodate this in future.
