Still, Dorico’s behaviour appears to be buggy in this regard.
If I I understand correctly, Nordine’s solution uses just two segments. Which is unfortunately not enough, as the right hand end of the line easily gets (horizontally) misaligned to stem when note spacing changes.
If there are more segments, Dorico misalignes them (vertically).
My font, in its simplest version, looks so:
And the pairs of characters BC and DE align correctly. But CD and EB are vertically misplaced (i.e. centered), which breaks line’s shape.
As Jesper suggest, using SVG yields correct result.
(And I confirm, If you export glyphs from FontForge, you have to scale them down in Dorico to 2 %).
How do I report a bug?
You’re doing it, by posting here. Please upload a project including your line definition, and your custom font, and attach it here, so we can take a closer look as time allows.
Yup, I discovered the same thing when I tried with 4 segments.
If only the line could end at any place, even in the middle of a segment.
That would be perfect.
Jesper
@dspreadbury Sure:
– abridged version of font: wavyBeam.dorico (497,9 KB)
– dorico project using said version: WvBm.zip (1,9 KB)
@jesele – perhaps white svg mask as a line ending symbol would do, but I’m not sure, how to set drawing precedence of objects (is it possible in Dorico at all?)
Don’t think so.
Jesper