I was much encouraged by Claude Lapalme’s demonstration of the way in which a prefatory stave could be constructed. Although these are early days for me in using Dorico, I can suggest a work round for creating coloration and ligature brackets in advance of those features being added to the program itself. On my Mac, the Unicode Arial font has a character set called ‘Box Drawing’ (I can add characters from this using a little program called PopChar). To add the brackets to my Dorico file, I open a text box in Engrave mode and insert the characters at the appropriate position, as shown in the attached picture. Ideally, this needs to be done after final formatting since the characters are not dynamically attached to the notes to which they belong. The one thing that I have not yet managed to do is to hide or erase the initial system brace in the prefatory stave as fratveno has. How is this done?
