Staff Names - Music Font Not Correct - Help!

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Hi, Everyone,

I recently created a new score (experimenting with custom libraries and templates) and noticed that the “flat” sign in one of my staff labels is displaying in a handwritten font (like Finale Jazz or Petaluma or something). It doesn’t change when I update the Music Font (the text changes to the text font associated with the music font, but the flat sign stays the same) and I can’t seem to find any options to edit that part of the label. I am finding options to show/hide the transposition, but not to specifically alter that character. My understanding is fonts can’t be mixed in staff/player names anyway, so I’m a bit lost.

Any ideas?

Here’s a screenshot:

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Thanks!

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Quick update: when I restored the library to “Factory Settings” the flat sign went back to the correct font. Just not sure what may have happened in between!

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That flat in the staff label will use the font you have specified in Library / Character Styles / Music Text.

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Thanks, @FredGUnn - I reset my library and started from scratch and this time avoided messing up the settings. Previously it didn’t matter what the Music Text was set on, the only thing that wouldn’t change was the flat sign (it stayed in the same font regardless).

Either way, starting from scratch seems to have solved it. I’ll be more careful this time!

Thanks for the input.

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Note that @FredGUnn was pointing you to the Music Text Character Style, not the Font Style.

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Yes indeed. This particular hiccup I think was the result of a music XML export out of Finale and into Dorico. There were a lot of library settings that came over and Dorico did its best to interpret them. It didn’t manifest until I exported/imported that library into a fresh Dorico document. Being more selective with the library import seems to have resolved it.