I’m just familiarizing myself with fingering features for orchestral strings. My requests are specifically about the shifting indicator (“dash”) marker. If the features below are already available, I’d appreciate being pointed in the right direction! Otherwise, I’d love to see:
(a) the option to have the dash reference the finger number after the shift, rather than the pre-shift number: “Indicate shift from previous note.” This will help with spacing, as I tend to mark my dashes just in front of the “arrival” finger number that results from a shift. Sometimes I throw the dash about equally between the two numbers, but that’s rare in what I’m used to seeing as a player and teacher.
(b) I use flat dashes (hyphens) more frequently angled. I see where I can change the angle to 0° in Engrave Options, but the result is a symbol that is vertically aligned at the bottom. I’d like to be able to have this hyphen vertically centered as a standard hyphen would be. As it stands, I can only do this by adjusting the Y position value of each symbol, and eyeballing the correct position.
Edited because I am incapable of proofreading before posting!
Thank you!