Possible Bug: Text Frame Border Overlaps Last Character

Hi guys,

I just noticed a small bug when using the Jazzy font.
I was entering some text and wanted to surround it with a frame. If I type only “outro”, the frame fits perfectly. However, if I make the text a bit longer, the right border of the frame ends up touching (or overlapping) the last letter. The only workaround I’ve found is to add an extra space at the end of the text, which fixes the issue, but I suspect this might be a small bug.

I hope this is helpful somehow.

A little side note: I still keep pressing Enter when I’m finished typing text. I always forget that in Dorico, Enter doesn’t finish text editing—I have to press Esc instead. It still feels a bit unintuitive to me. I’m curious whether anyone else feels the same way?

What kind of text is it? How did you add the frame? What are your padding settings? Which font is used?

Could you attach a small project file which shows this problem?

Hi Simon,

The “enter” authomatic action is always bugging me, also, but the behaviour in Dorico is perfectly correct, as the texts in Dorico do not need to be on just one line.

Usually, I do not use Esc, instead, I click with the mouse somewhere on the score to close the text input (when I remember not to use enter, that is…).

I agree that Enter should “accept and close”, just like Tempo, Dynamics etc.

CR however, should give a new line/para.

CMD+CR “accept and close”. (I use this alot for the comments pane)

Its the inbuilt Finale Jazz Font. I used the shortcut shift-opt.x to apply the text to all instruments. Adding the frame in the lower zone

@black_robin sent the file by DM.

Doesn’t show problematic with me, but I’m still on 6.1.10

It’s the Finale Jazz Text font, if someone with the latest version would try to reproduce

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Jesper

it happens only when putting those 3 dotts in the middle:
my dorico version: 6.2.30.6245 (May 29 2026)

Ah, yes, here also. Use alt/option dot instead of 3 dots.

Jesper

Edit: Ignore unless you use a Swedish keyboard.

On my computer keyboard I get the Ellipsis character (= 3 dots) with option-X.

Outro-Jam

Ah, sorry, that’s with a Swedish Keyboard. alt/opt semicolon on a British Keyboard, I think.

Jesper