Does Dorico have plans for Roman Numeral Analysis? In guitar lessons and tutorials I can get away with the MusAnalysis Font in the Lyric option. However, when I have guitar and voice and want to analyze the guitar, it seems I can’t also have lyrics. Or, is there a work around…?
You could put the MusicAnalysis in a different lyric line (eg chorus)?
Lyric line 3, for example? And how do you set normal font for just that line?
I don’t think you can set a different font for each verse, but you can separate verses, chorus and translation…
Library>Paragraph Styles
Now let‘s combine @dan_kreider ‘s Cantorum and MusAnalysis font and do some functional harmony analysis for a 10th century chant …
Haha
When I get frustrated I switch to Finale, but quickly realize that it will soon be dead.
It is actually possible to create as many custom Paragraph Styles as you want, and assign those to any selected lyrics you want.
Of course this can get a bit difficult if you’re inputting non-standard characters, like MusAnalysis or Cantorum. But it is quite flexible.
Could you possibly assign one level to a vocal staff and another level to tablature with the roman numeral analysis positioned under the tab staff? And can you hide vs numbers?
This is going in a journal article and I need both. Since Dorico is not quite there yet on this aspect, I have thought about doing Lyrics in Dorico. Then exporting pages as JPG and inputting analysis in Photoshop. Pretty tedious, but still happy with Dorico over Finale.
I think a vector graphics program would be better suited than Photoshop.
Caveat: MusAnalysis doesn’t work in Photoshop or Illustrator. It does work in InDesign.
If you’re going to go that far why not just use Musanalysis above the staff as non lyric text. I actually prefer to work that way as some complex analysis notation often gets center justified under notes when using lyrics and doesn’t really end up with the right spacing.
