Is there a way to adjust the horizontal alignment for clefs, when the design of a clef has negative left side-bearings?
In the example below (using MTF-Haydn), notice how the ball of the bass clef is not used as the left alignment point for the clef, because the the bottom end of the clef extends to the left. In typography, this is usually addressed by negative side-bearings for the glyph.
Unfortunately, Dorico doesn’t seem to read font-level side-bearings for clef symbols, and editing the horizontal position in Library/Music Symbols has no effect.
What I would like to get is this:
Any ideas?
Go to Library > Engraving Options > Spacing Gaps and decrease the Gap after barline before clef or key signature until the bass clef has moved to the left as far as desired. Then go to Library > Music Symbols, search for G clef, delete its glyph and add the glyph augmentationDot (U+E1E7) with its Scale reduced to 1.00 followed by gClef (U+E050) with its X-Offset increased to move the treble clef to the right as far as desired.
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This absolutely works! Thank you.
I wish Dorico would read negative side-bearings from the music font or from SMuFL metadata. Then the end-user wouldn’t have to worry about switching between music fonts.
