Trying to notate some harmonica music. (WEll, not music, actually just some reference material).
Harmonica is notated using a tab-style system, using the numbers 1-10, - to indicate a draw (harmonicas produce a different pitch on suck and blow), and with ’ used to indicate bends. (’ = half step, ‘’ = full step).
So a bit of harmonica music might look like this: “-1 -2” -2’ -2 -3” -3’ -3 -4 5 -4 -5 5 -3’ -2”. Basically I am wanting to combine this with traditionally notated pitches and rhythms.
Right now fingering only seems to support the digits 1-7.
I want fingerings and not, say, text objects, because of the way fingerings attach to noteheads.
This has been requested before. It’s a bit tricky because by default fingering is drawn using a fixed set of music symbols rather than with runs of text. However, it is conceivable that if you choose to use a plain font for fingering rather than the music font, we could potentially allow a wider range of characters to be drawn. This is something that’s on our list to investigate in future.
Lyrics don’t work, at least I don’t think so, because the - will trigger advancement to the next syllable. Maybe it works though…not at my Dorico machine.