Hi,
I tried to create a custom, multi-segment line style, that would represent wavy beams (like in Lutosławski’s scores). My idea was to make a font with a number of segments (narrow slices), so any misalignment (when note spacing changes) would be hardly visible.
What I get, with just four segments, is this:
The problem is that Dorico appears to center horizontally all the segments, ignoring their position relatively to the font’s baseline, while I need the segment to maintain their vertical offsets. Is there any way to override this behaviour?
The problem with this solution is that you have to put texts of different length in parts and in score (due to varying spacing.).
What I need is a line attached to given notes, not a piece of text. I wonder if there is a way to force Line Body Editor to take into account vertical positions of glyphs relative to font’s baseline instead of centering them vertically.
That was the idea, perhaps with even more thin slices (like 16 per space). But it seems Dorico assumes the segments in line are always vertically symmetrical. So if it encounters a glyph that is vertically moved away from the baseline of the font, it pulls the glyph back down. You can set horizontal repeat offset for any segment (in Edit Repeatable Symbols window), but I cannot see any way to manipulate vertical offsets of repeatable symbol. Moving the glyph:
doesn’t change its vertical positioning within the line.
Yes, I see the problem, perhaps easier to import the finished piece into Affinity Designer and do the curves there. If Dorico could just end the line in the middle of a segment.
No, I guess not. I know I wished for this before, that you could end a line mid-segment, that would solve it. Don’t think any json fiddling would help I’m afraid.
