Andro
February 7, 2023, 11:12am
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There’s no built in function,. but sure you can do incipits.
See for example:
I was much encouraged by Claude Lapalme’s demonstration of the way in which a prefatory stave could be constructed. Although these are early days for me in using Dorico, I can suggest a work round for creating coloration and ligature brackets in advance of those features being added to the program itself. On my Mac, the Unicode Arial font has a character set called ‘Box Drawing’ (I can add characters from this using a little program called PopChar). To add the brackets to my Dorico file, I open …
As @dspreadbury says in that topic:
Hopefully one day we’ll have a proper feature for this, but until then this is perhaps better than a kick in the teeth, and as far as I know not much more laborious than doing a similar job in Sibelius or Finale.
Hi everyone, happy Sunday!
I’ve been working on some Renaissance music, and the edge cases I’ve run into have illuminated some situations that I believe Dorico doesn’t handle very elegantly yet. I just wanted to lay out some of the things I ran into in the hopes that folks can suggest better approaches, or the development team might be able to investigate in the future.
One huge hurdle is creating the incipit. Below is a beautiful example from a published score (sepia) of what I’m trying to re…