I appreciate the newly added OpenType features in Dorico 6, but I was wondering however if it is possible to have different OpenType setting, not on a per paragraph level, but for individual letters within a paragraph or even better a selection of text, etc.
For a bit of context, my usual go to font is Adobe Garamond Pro, typically I make the first capital letter of a paragraph, or (as someone who engraves mostly organ music) the first capital of manual or stop indications a swash capital. With Adobe Garamond Pro, doing this so far isn’t very complicated, but it is somewhat tedious since it involves a lot of copy/paste from my list of swash/alternate characters. I want to use Garamond Premier Pro which has a lot more OpenType features than Adobe Garamond Pro which I can now (sort of) take advantage of in Dorico, but so far it seems I can only set Swash capitals for the entire paragraph style, not just for the specific places I need them. Here’s some examples of what I mean.
The first one is with Garamond Premier Pro, I cannot make specific capitals the alternate/Swash versions, it seems to be all or nothing. The swash/alternate forms are outside of the Unicode range from what I can tell so I cannot just simply copy/paste these, they have to be enabled within Dorico.
The second one is using Adobe Garamond Pro, this is the sort of thing what I am hoping to be able to do (except do it with Garamond Premier or any other OpenType font through Dorio’s OpenType features, not by copy/paste), with Garamond Pro I can control exactly which letters use or do not use alternate forms since everything is within the Unicode range so I can just copy/paste (and this does not just apply only to Swash capitals).
So anyways, if there a way to do this that I missed, or some workaround, thanks in advance for any tips (and if this is not currently possible at all, maybe it can be a suggestion for future features).
Per page 30 of the Version History, you create a Character Style (from Library > Character Styles) that has the relevant OpenType features ticked at the bottom. Then you select the specific text you want to modify - within a paragraph - and set your custom Character Style from the top left corner of the text editing thingy.
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I’m out of topic, but as a French person, I could not let it pass…
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That is how Gervais-François Couperin spelled it both in his autographs and this copy from a contemporary.
Couperin wrote two such pieces, one was published 30 years ago by N. Gorenstein with the exact same spelling “Coriphé & Chœur”.
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Given that Couperin died twenty years before the Encyclopédie de Diderot was started, it makes sense. The language was more plastic by then. Thanks for sharing the source!
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You might be confusing Gervais-François with François “le grand”, Gervais-François was born in 1759, after that dictionary was started, and died in 1826.
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You’re probably right! Do you mean he didn’t know how to write choryphée properly then?
What’s striking me most is that this strange occurrence of coryphé is not listed in the tlfi — probably the best dictionary for French language… and absolutely free.
If G-F Couperin didn’t know how to spell it, then the copyist François-Louis Perne didn’t know either. There’s some other spelling things in both the autographs and Perne’s copies, “Volty” instead of “volti”, “Kirié” instead of “Kyrie”, etc.
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That’s fascinating. It shows how overrated “l’orthographe” is in France, at least for people of my generation. It used to be the editor’s duty to correct it, because some authors were notably not too keen on that matter, in the XIXth c. I suppose it was even worse before, as tge language was just being freezed by those new Encyclopédie, Dictionnaire, etc. Thank you for this OT trip 
