Hell all,
Is it possible in any way to write the +6 or any number with a + before the actual number in Dorico?
Many thanks in advance for any help,
Max
I canāt remember off the top of my head, but check in Engrave > Engraving Options > Figured Bass for various ways of presenting different intervals in figured bass.
Hi Lillie,
Unfortunately there is nothing there when it comes to recreate what I have attached 
I had a look at the Figurato font that some users have recommended but then I would have to draw all the various horizontal lines manually and combining Doricoās native figured bass with the Figurato font will cause some numbers to look different due to the different font used.
A compromise is to add the + sign manually as a separate text, at the moment I donāt see any other wayā¦
Maximvs, you might be able to use my MusAnalysis font to plug the gaps.
I donāt recommend it over Doricoās native figured bass function, but itās a helpful tool to have on hand as well. It can do most everything Iām seeing in that picture. It can also do backtracking lines, which work quite well once you get used to them. Just a thought.
Dear Dan,
Thanks a lot for your kind reply and suggestionā¦ I had a look at your excellent MusAnalysis font, is it possible to write for example the slashed number 5? I have a client that likes to have figured bass numbers as in my pictureā¦ Many thanks and best regards,
Max
Hi Maximus.
Just wonderingā¦ are you French? Because I certainly am, and indeed Iāve learned figured bass in the Conservatoire in a way that does not exist (yet?) in Dorico, where the sensible is marked with a + sign. My God, why is is sooooooo difficult to find the translation of sensible in English? It looks as though all the analysis theory is different from what we learn hereā¦ The āsensibleā is the note below the ātoniqueā, what would be the root of the tonic chord in English.
Well, if itās possible, this would be a Feature request : allow us to input figured bass in the French style. Thereās quite some litterature written like thatā¦
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Hi Max, Iām working on this particular one right now, after I realized itās not yet possible.
It sounds to me like the best English translation of sensible would be subtonic or leading tone.
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You can set Figurato to be the font for Figured Bass, so that it will match, whether itās Figure Bass, or Lyrics.
Font Styles > Figure Bass Font
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I had great difficulty when I lived in Paris understanding all of the musical (and especially pipe organ) terms. They never teach you music lingo in generic language classesā¦
I was once helping the ātitulaireā tune a pipe organ in paris and he was shouting at me from within the organ case and it took me a good long while to decipher what he actually meant. lol.
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It is called the leading note because in the most common cadence (V - I) it leads to the tonic.
David
Thanks! I only found leading note in a Wikipedia article that put it along with a B chord (while in C). Nice to know the english term. In France, we learn to write the + sign in the figured bass before the number (or the hidden 3rd) that is the leading note.
It would be nice if the litteral input (with ā!ā at the beginning of the popover entry) allowed to have that plus sign.
Hello Marc,
I am Swiss -Italian and completely understand what you are saying in term of the āsensibleā which in italian is called āsensibileā, both are coming from the same Latin word ādesinereā meaning āto endā and in English, like people have already mentioned, is called the āleading toneā or āsubtonicā.
Dorico at present doesnāt allow to add a + sign before the number not even when you insert at the very beginning the override symbols (i.e. o O !). Maybe they will add this option in the future but at present I just created a staff text with Shift + X and created the + sign that wayā¦ it is fiddling and it takes manual adjustment but in the end I was able to reproduce the score and my client is very happyā¦ 
Best regards,
Max
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Hi Dan,
Thanks a lot for the feedback and I hope in a future update you will add perhaps the possibility to write slashed numbersā¦ In any case your font looks very useful indeed.
Best,
Max
Hi Ben,
I did test the Figurato font and it works pretty well but I could only make it work by substituting the Dorico Lyrics fonts, for some reason that I cannot understand when I substituted the Dorico Figured Bass font with the Figurato nothing happened ā¦
Best,
Max
Make sure you change the āFigured Bass Fontā, not āFigured Bass Text Fontā Style.
Hello,
Iām considering to switch from Finale to Dorico and I need to type all the signs of the baroque figured bass like ā+ā under the 7 or +6 and things like that. Is it possible ?
Thank you
FrƩdƩric
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Welcome to the forum, @Frederic_Platzer. I believe youāll find Doricoās support for figured bass to be pretty comprehensive. Check out this video for an introduction:
In Dorico 4, weāve additionally added comprehensive support for bracketing figured bass, including bracketing individual figures, accidentals, or whole stacks.
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Iām sorry Daniel, but this leading tone notation is still expected. At least anyone who has studied in France or under Lili Boulangerās teaching still need this. I submitted the request quite some time ago and no new option for this has been implemented yet.
[Edit] I checked with the Notation Option set to Follow input litterally and it does not change. We still need the ability to use the + sign as in French convention.
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I guess you meant big sister Nadia 
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