Hello Dorico Developers. Can you create Open Ended Vertical/Horizontal line open ended brackets, 90° angles even both left and right. I keep having to manually create those and it’s becoming irritating having to do this every time. I have provided project snapshots these desired open ended brackets outlined in red boxes to illustrate what I’m hoping you’ll develop. These brackets indicate when to begin and end for intros to be played in hymns.
- I don’t really know this convention, but how is it different than these glyphs which are already in Bravura?
- I’m also not sure why you would ever need to make this more than once. If it’s something you use often just create it once and save it as default. If you do it as a Playing Technique just hit the Save as Default star and it will be available in any future New project. If you are doing it as a line, as it looks like in your image, it’s the same thing. I have a bunch of lines I’ve saved as default so these custom lines, for example, are available in every project for me.
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Even though lines would be my preferred approach, another way would be to insert these as text characters.
A search at
found Top Left Corner at Unicode code point U+231C and Top Right Corner at Unicode code point U+231D.
The problem with this approach is that not all fonts would include these characters and the thickness of the “lines” is not able to be changed. All this means that you would need to find a font which does include them and also has them at a thickness which you consider suitable.
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Tbh, I really never understood why publishers include these markings. If you’re too dense to figure out how to introduce a hymn, you probably shouldn’t be the one playing it during a service. It’s also annoying because for many hymns, there’s a myriad of ways you could introduce them (first+last, refrain only, second half, etc. etc.) so most of the time I have to ignore them anyway.
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No need to wake the developers with uppercase: you can already create lines to do this. In fact, here’s a .dorico file for you that will give you exactly what you want.
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I’ve edited the thread title. @GeorgeMaster, you can rest assured that we read every thread here on the forum, and we don’t need to be shouted at in order to look at what you’ve written.
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The brackets help a keyboard player or players greatly when someone decides to sing on the spur of the moment a hymn the players may not have planned. To be able come up with an intro in 3 seconds helps a lot. This happens with certain groups.
Thank you very much for this answer. It is slow to do it this way, but I got it done. Thanks for taking the time to look this up. I could find the Top Right Corner bracket fairly quickly once you reminded me of this approach, but I couldn’t find the Top Left Corner. You helped me greatly, thanks again.
Great job Dorico in allowing Unicodes with your text tool!
Make it easier on yourself in future:
- Pick a category of articulations (Keyboard, for example)
- Click the plus icon
- choose “glyph” as the kind
- click the pen icon
- in the new editor window, change it to “text” and add the desired character to the window and scale appropriately (300% appears about correct on my machine, but the font you use will affect this)
- Once you’re back out in the main window, click the star icon, and now it will appear in all new projects as an easily selectable object in the keyboard category.
Result:
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