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?
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.
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.
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.
I’m experiencing the exact same issue, all I’m trying to do is add a simple square bracket around a notehead, ideally one that actually respects the settings in engraving options.
For now I’m using vertical lines as a creative workaround which is… fine, I guess. I’m just curious whether the dorico team is going to pay any attention to this issue, or even better, fix it.
