'Minus' minor chord symbol formatting bug?

[spacebass]

Hello everyone, new Dorico user here.

I noticed that the chord quality ‘-’ symbol shows some weird behaviour.

On ‘Baseline’ vertical position, the minus symbol is very small and looks subscripted, see Example-1:

When setting the vertical position to ‘Subscript’, the symbol appears in the same height as with
‘Baseline’, but actually larger, see Example-2:

In the ‘Appearance of minor triads’ settings category, the shown preview looks how I
would normally expect it, see Example-3:

The examples were created on a new empty project where I only changed the mentioned settings, everything else
left on default. I’m sure this can be corrected manually, but it does not appear as intended default behaviour.

[dspreadbury]

Welcome to the forum, spacebass. I’ll have to dig into the specifics to see which characters it’s pulling out when these options are changed. Please give me a bit of time to look into it – it’s a very busy time for me just now so I might not be able to come back to you right away.

[spacebass]

@Daniel at Steinberg

Welcome to the forum, spacebass. I’ll have to dig into the specifics to see which characters it’s pulling out when these options are changed. Please give me a bit of time to look into it – it’s a very busy time for me just now so I might not be able to come back to you right away.

I can understand that, thank you for looking into it. I have some additional information that might be helpful, I tried it out with Dorico’s Petaluma Music Font as well.

In the ‘Baseline’ setting it looks small, thin and subscripted as well, see Example-4:

In the ‘Subscript’ setting it looks much bigger and thicker, and much like what I would ‘Baseline’ expect to look like, see Example-5:

In the ‘Superscript’ setting it looks the same as with ‘Subscript’ (bigger than ‘Baseline’, that is), but superscripted, see Example-6:

[spacebass]

Update since Dorico 3 has been released in the meantime: The described behaviour persists in Dorico 3

[MaryaHart]

Hi just bumping this issue back up. On my rig, I can’t alter the appearance of the dash/minus sign at all, even using the sub/superscript option. I’d like to have a nice solid “em” dash, rather than the tiny “en” dash that presently appears. If there’s a workaround to alter the appearance of the dash, I’d like to know it.

[Italyuser]

Try are this…

Global Custom Chord Symbol Appearance

So I am using Dorico Pro 3 (Mac) and just getting my feet wet. I just finished my first project and have learned a lot. But one feature that has eluded me is the ability to customize the chord symbol appearance - at a default level for new projects - for all chords of the same type (I am not referring to the many chord options you can click on in the Engraving Options / Chord Symbols page; but instead the more detailed “Project Default Appearance” section). I have gone into Engraving Options …

[MaryaHart]

Thanks, very helpful. Now I have a decent look to it…