mano sinistra and mano destra hooked line

Dorico
1

Hello community,

is there a way to have this little m.s. m.d. hooked line being attached to notes
or do i have to fiddle around with smufl and the text tool?

2

There’s no built-in support for this kind of bracketing just yet, though it is planned. I think that using the glyphs from the ‘Keyboard techniques’ range is probably the best approach for now: select the text items and switch off ‘Avoid collisions’ in the Properties panel to make it easier to position them in Engrave mode.

3

If playback isn’t an issue for you then you can actually repurpose the (sustain) pedal brackets, like so:

4

thanks, great idea…