Lead sheet style indications in score

[Lapieuvre]

Hello,

Back in the days when I used Finale I could do these kind of Breaks in the score. When I switched to Sibelius, I was sad to lose that.

(I talk about the BREAK indication with contour on the left and top sides)

Can it be done in Dorico?

[benwiggy]

Most of the “handwritten jazz” fonts (including the Finale ones) contain characters that can form “partial boxes”. Essentially, you would type the character for the left-hand line, then additional characters for the upper line, between every letter of the word.

(Because the line characters have “zero-width”, they don’t take up any ‘forward’ space.)

[Vadian]

Basically you can do that as Text or System Text and a font which contains this symbol like Finale Ash, the literal text can be any font (here Academico)

[Lapieuvre]

yikes!

Can you show me how you did this ?

[Derrek]

What font are you using? One needs to use fonts that support the feature.

[Kevin_Eland]

I use the “pori rehearsal” quite a lot,

[Vadian]

@Lapieuvre

Can you show me how you did this ?

This symbol is a SMuFL glyph and – as mentioned before – some “handwritten jazz” fonts contain this symbol for example the Finale Broadway Copyist, Copyist, Ash, and Jazz – respectively the fonts with Text suffix.

I’m on Mac and use PopChar for ages to quickly find and copy/paste characters. This is the Finale Ash Text excerpt

• Copy the character the (the hex address is U+F723),
• Switch to Dorico,
• Press SHIFTX,
• In the format palette select one of the supported fonts for example Finale Ash Text,
• Paste the character,
• Select another font (optional),
• Enter the literal text

[Lapieuvre]

@Kevin_Eland

pori rehearsal

Thanks for your replies,

Pori rehearsal is nice ! Thanks for this.

as for POPCHAR, the app froze, so I couldn’t try it…

[jesele]

I use Ultra Character Map for Mac. Supports SMUFL categories.

Jesper

[Derrek]

Anyone have a Windows 11 font-selector equivalent? Character Map figures are much too small.

[bernatcucarella]

How do you use it? I’m curious. Does it help you with things like this, or with other things?

[jesele]

I copy glyphs as text and paste them into text fields in Dorico when creating playing techniques and lines. I also copy as SVG, and paste into Affinity Designer to create combinations, or edited symbols. I also find it easier to find glyphs with SMUFL categories supported. Haven’t tried Popchar, so can’t compare. Search also works quite well. See last picture.

Jesper

[Vadian]

@jesele

Haven’t tried Popchar, so can’t compare.

Thank you very much for pointing out.

I discovered that PopChar doesn’t support a SMuFL category out of the box, but you can create custom categories with this format:

// SMuFL 1.0

// This layout contains all characters of the Standard Music Font Layout (SMuFL).

Staff brackets and dividers
$E000-$E00F

Staves
$E010-$E02F

Barlines
$E030-$E03F

Repeats
$E040-$E04F

Clefs
$E050-$E07F


All Defined Ligatures
[LIGATURES]

The corresponding appearance in PopChar with Bravura selected is

It will take a while to implement all categories (maybe there is a table somewhere) but it looks promising.

Edit: The classes.json file contains all information which can be parsed with a JSON decoder.

[Vadian]

I parsed the SMuFL ranges.json file on GitHub and created a custom category SMuFL for PopChar. Put the file into ~/Library/Application Support/PopChar/Layouts (~ is the home folder).

SMuFL.txt.zip (2.6 KB)

[asherber]

Character Map UWP, from the Windows store.

[Derrek]

@asherber

Character Map UWP

Fantastic. Thank you.