I’m trying to change the thickness of the square brackets around noteheads—it’s too thick for the context I need. However changing “Square bracket thickness” in Engraving options > Bracketed Noteheads > Design does me no good:
This is the case in both existing and new projects.
The feature obviously works, cf. Change bracket size for square brackets around note head - #6 by benwiggy —however I can’t replicate this, no matter if I ask for a bracket of an absurd 2-space thickness or a wispy 1/20-space thickness. Is there something I’m missing?
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Changing the square bracket thickness or hook length works as expected in Dorico 5 but not in Dorico 6, so you have discovered a regression in Dorico 6.
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Yikes. Ok well this is a feature I’ll need on this project, as there are a ton of editorial augmentation dots that I’ve been bracketing with this feature (it’s rather fussy but the only way I know of to get bracketed dots). I suppose I could re-download the latest build of Dorico 5 but that’s going to cause other file-related problems.
Is this what you’re looking for?
I added the jazz ornament Fall Bend (Short) to each note and used the Edit Music Symbol dialog to replace the glyph for Lip fall (short) with the glyphs timeSigBracketLeftSmall (U+EC82) and timeSigBracketRightSmall (U+EC83), with the Scale of both glyphs set to 50.00 and the X-Offset of the second glyph set to 1.50. Some adjustments to the positions of these ornaments are necessary in engrave mode.
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Wow, just as with the other ways you have found to manipulate Dorico, that’s impressive! I will try it and see how it works for my needs. Of course the ideal in the future would be a property switch for “editorial augmentation dot” and the requisite Engraving Options to control their appearance.
Speaking of property switches, I’m also in need of a proper feature for editorial accidentals, which I know are in the pipeline. House style for editorial accidentals in this project is just “smaller accidentals,” which means changing the size in the Properties panel. However, I misjudged the correct size earlier in the project, and so now I need to change every one of a few hundred editorial accidentals by hand from 75% to 80%. I could record a macro to speed things up a bit, but there’s no way to filter for “notes with small accidentals” or even “notes with accidentals,” so even with a macro I need to select the accidentals by individual click.
An update now that I’ve had a chance to work with this. It’s a great temporal solution, particularly with a macro “Make Editorial Augmentation Dot” that applies the articulation and the Engrave Mode alterations automatically. It’s a little wonky with dyads a third apart, the augmentation dots of which had been sharing a double-tall bracket—that’s impossible with this solution, but the articulations can be adjusted to not look too awkward in Engrave Mode. Thank you again for this idea! Nevertheless I will still voice my request for an official “editorial augmentation dot” property with the associated appearance options.
