Playing technique text position

Dorico
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is there a way to define the horizontal position of only specific playback technique text?

for example, arco, pizz, those short bits of text are fine.
but I have a few like “non-divisi” or “arp. lento” that are, well, longer. Dorico by default places the beginning of the text a little too far to the right, which almost makes the text look like it affects the subsequent notes.

would there be a way of defining the positioning for only those long techniques so that they start a bit further to the left?

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I haven’t done it but this might help:

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There’s not really a good way of doing this. PT are always centered at present.

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except the playing techniques aren’t really centered.
at least, none of the text ones are. they are all slightly skewed to the right.
and if I create a long text, like “non-divisi”, the little dotted attachment line is an entire 8th note off to the right. in that particular case, the only part that is “centered” is the “non”. the “-divisi” part is completely off the note, to the right.

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Or rather, PTs that are text are all dependent on the same offset, and PTs that are symbols/glyphs/composites are all centred.

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