Thick Underline for Title Text

Hi all,

Is there a way in the paragraph styles, or similar, to get a thick underline on a chart’s Title?

like this:
Screen Shot 2024-10-05 at 2.46.55 PM

I achieved the thick underline in this picture via the same way I used to do it in Finale: manually typed alt+i+u, or alt+i+i adds these invisible characters that are just long or short underlines. (It seems like Dorico has correctly implemented most of the intricacies of the finale fonts. Although this one is called “Finale Broadway” in Dorico, even though I believe it’s actually “finale copyist” in finale.)

I added these characters in Dorico in the Project info:
Screen Shot 2024-10-05 at 2.49.20 PM

I see that there is an underline option in the title paragraph settings, but it’s way too thin:

What’s the dorico way to achieve this thick underline?

Thanks!
Geoff

How about add a border and adjust the top padding so it coincides with the bottom border. Then adjust the thickness.

Screenshot 2024-10-05 at 6.25.20 PM

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When you activate the underline option either in the text editing popover or in the paragraph style, you’ll see the underline thickness and position that’s defined in the font itself. I guess the underline in Finale Broadway really is that thin, presumably because the assumption is you will use an alternative method to achieve the underline effect as described in your initial post.

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That could work, but how to hide the left and right sides?

Would love to find whatever the best method is, and make it part of my template! As the title is used more globally in dorico than in finale, it seems a little less desirable to have those weird underline characters, just in case I might want to grab the title and use it somewhere else where I wouldn’t want those underlines.

In Finale it was literally just text used in the top of the sheet and subsequent pages, not a global variable.

The L&R sides disappear because the top line is brought to the same level as the bottom line.

Another thought is, since MM released the fonts under the Open SIL license, you could edit the font to have the line thickness you want.

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It might be necessary to point out, that Dorico is not the little brother of Finale, nor a sequel of it.
Dorico is a completely different application with an own, very different concept of other previous notation software.
I am a user of Dorico, who came from Sibelius. It did take me months to “learn” this new Software and I am still having questions. In the beginning I obviously tried to copy things and actions from my previous software, but very soon decided to continue with Dorico’s own “mindset”.

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Oh right, duh. :smiley:

Exactly why I’m asking! I expect that to get the most out of Doico, I will want to relearn some/many of the ways I used to do things in finale. People say, and I’m finding that I agree, that there’s usually a more global and better way do do things in Dorico.

I do like the look of this particular font for pop charts, though, so as it’s already available in dorico i think I’m gonna stick with it, even if it originated from Finale.