Possible to "box" certain letters in a normal staff text?

[mikeheels]

Hi,

I’m trying to achieve being able to box some letters in a normal text, so that I can reference rehearsal marks even more clearly…is it possible to do so?

I couldn’t find a way unfortunately. as I f I select the letters I want to be boxed, highlight them, and select the rehearsal marks paragraph style (or a custom one I can easily create), Dorico turns the whole text item into that paragraph style, defeating the purpose.

Thanks!

Best

-m

[jesele]

It can be done if you have the Musglyphs font. (thanks @dan_kreider ) Create a character style using Musglyphs text.
Surround the A and B with square brackets, and change the character style. Or, simply use Musglyphs text for the whole text, but add the brackets around A and B. I think Musglyphs is using Academico.

Jesper

MusGlyphs - Notation Central

[mikeheels]

thanks so much, I will look into it as I have never used this! I do have MusGlyphs as I had purchased it a few years back

best

[Andro]

You can also get Encercle font which has boxes and all sorts of shapes, especially numbers in circles (hence the name),

[mikeheels]

any chance I can achieve the same result but preserving the font I am already using, which is Nepomuk ?
I tried Musegliph but it looks really different and also messes up the spacing of the words I have written…

[jesele]

Not without dividing the text. The spacing should be OK with Musglyphs. Did you use Musglyphs Text and not Musglyphs?

Jesper

This is what I get with Nepomuk:

With 3 separate text object with border ticked in the properties panel.
All Nepomuk.

[mikeheels]

Thanks a lot.

I did manage to do it with 3 separate text objects but it would be really messy and not efficient at all, since I’ll be using this types of instructions a lot

[jesele]

As a Playing technique, type Glyph with tom-tom pictograms as borders. Tricky to create, but one object.

Jesper

[mikeheels]

THANKS a lot!

[jesele]

It would be nice to have a border option under Character Styles.

Jesper

[mikeheels]

it would indeed