It seems “Library menu > Music Symbol > offset” doesn’t work, while “scale” works. I have a case where tablature number “1” needs to be moved, I suppose I could be achieved here. Please let me know if I miss something, thank you.
(In this case Helvetica is used for the number font, some font like Helvetica needs manual adjustment for the horizontal position like this case. )
251020_TAB_number_offset_test.dorico (1.5 MB)
I don’t know why Dorico won’t let you offset the first glyph from the origin point in this editor, but it won’t. The workaround is to simply insert a blank space first. Once there’s a blank space, then there’s something for the glyph to be offset from, and then it works.
Thanks Fred, I’m still looking for the way to control it but as you said now it seems to be working somehow.
@Richard_Lanyon I’d appreciate it if you could check it out, thank you. Also it would be great if there is a way to cut off the stretched staff line around the number “1”.
I’m not sure, but I suspect all the offsets will be calculated relative to the first item in the composite. You might be better off creating your own font rather than trying to work around the variable sizes/bounding boxes for the numbers in Helvetica.
Is this what you’re looking for?
I added a Unicode right half block (U+2590) colored white, then the digit one, and finally a Unicode full block (U+2588) colored white. I adjusted the scale of the Unicode characters and moved them up to cover the line on the tablature staff.
Since I’m on Windows, I used the font Arial rather than Helvetica.
Thanks John, yes that’s what I was looking for. And the way to adjust the staff line cut-off length around the number is very interesting, it would take some time (I’m still looking for the best position) but once it’s adjusted I think it would work well.
Thanks for taking your time to check. About the staff line cut-off amount, I guess we can leave it because maybe it’s a matter of specific fonts, and there is a way to address it as John points out.
So how about the number’s horizontal position problem? I think Fred’s workaround works for the time being but I think it would be great if we could move the horizontal position of numbers just by using the Offset spin box only, which would more intuisive and make our works much easier.
I think for this sort of use you really want a “tabular” font, or one where “tabular figures” can be turned on or off in OpenType features. That would solve both problems. The way that offsets are calculated within composites is crucial to drawing all sorts of things in Dorico and so any changes there would be difficult and risky.
Understood, thank you very much for taking your time with this!
