I need a very special fingering what can’t be made by any regular way, so I intend to manage it by “text input” (Shitf+x), but can’t figure out what is the font type of the factory set fingering in Dorico. So my question is, what font type should I set for the text input to get similar result to the default bold fingering letter type? Many thank for the reply in advance:)
Sorry, I’m very prolific in asking questions today.
This may be interesting…Seemingly different sizes on fingerings
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This doesn’t specifically answer your question but check out Library/Font Styles/Fingering Font.
Many information, what haven’t answered my question, but were worth to read a lot:) Thank you @Alberto_Maria 
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Your answer:
I tried it, @lafin ,but no avail. To be honest I don’t change fonts often in general, I’m using and pretty like what Dorico offers, so have no routine in this part of the program, and am a bit stuck…
Thank you @lafin . Still, when I set text input font to bravura I get a totally different and weird result.
Can you give an example of what you’re trying to achieve? The characters you’re looking for are probably not in the slots you’re expecting in Bravura.
Are you setting the text input to Bravura or to Bravura Text? They are IIRC different fonts, only one of which is designated a text font, the other being the music font.
Bravura Text is a font of SMuFL music symbols, designed to be used in text environments, such as in Metronome Marks.
Confusingly, the Finale [Name] Text fonts are text fonts, with very few, if any, music characters.
Can you describe exactly what you’re doing here? Which “Text Input Font” are you setting?
sx050 oktav skalak in english.pdf (375.0 KB)
I think the best is to share the whole thing. The explanations are bad english translations, I made it briefly NOW. The whole is about some exercises to teach scales, what raises two general questions.
- Adding 2 fingering to one note in the way that one is above the other.
- Using two different dynamics for the same singe note one below the other.
I know, normally these don’t make any sense, but in this special case it does as you can see.
I’m grateful for any suggestion:)
Actually, look at the fingering text font. I’ve changed my default but I think it’s Academico Regular 8pt
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I’ll do my best to clear up a few things that seem not to have been answered definitively in this thread, but before I do that let me give you
a better way to get the results you want:
Go to Library > Engraving Options > Fingering > Alternative, Editorial and Cautionary
Select these two options (at the bottom of this screenshot).
Then type 5(1) into the Fingering popover (or property), as shown at the top of this screenshot.
No need for typing anything manually or delving into SMuFL fonts.
Now to clear up the other stuff:
Default font for fingering:
By default Dorico uses Bravura for fingerings, as that is what is set by default at Library > Font Styles > Fingering Font. Bravura is a SMuFL (music) font that contains thousands of glyphs, most of which don’t correspond to the letters that you’d type if you wanted to see those glyphs appear. Considering a 5 or a 1, those could be the numerator for a time signature, a fingering, part or all of a Figured Bass, er, figure, a chord extension, and SMuFL fonts have to house all of these possibilities and many more. This means it’s not possible to start typing in Bravura and get the right 5 or 1 if you type 5 or 1 on your keyboard.
If you want to use a standard text font for fingerings, you need to go to Library > Engraving Options > Fingering > Design and set this option to use a Plain Font, like so:
You then need to go to Library > Font Styles and set the Fingering Text Font to use whichever text font you want.
If you stick with what is listed in Engraving Options as the Bold Font (by which Dorico means the (SMuFL) Fingering Font rather than the Fingering Text Font, as @benwiggy posted elsewhere and @Alberto_Maria helpfully cited further up in this thread) you can insert SMuFL glyphs into staff text by invoking the staff text popover (Shift-X), right-clicking, then clicking Insert Music Text.
In the dialog that opens, click the Category dropdown and then start typing Fing and hit Enter. Then select the Fingering you want and hit OK.
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The other thing I just realised you asked about was how to put multiple dynamics under the same note.
The easiest way I know is to input one dynamic the regular way, that is to say, either Shift-D f Enter (for an f) or to select the note or invoke the caret and click the relevant button in the right panel.
Then input a voice-specific dynamic, either by invoking the caret and typing Shift-D p Alt/Opt-Enter (for a p under the f) or by holding down Alt/Opt on your keyboard and clicking the relevant button in the right panel.
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Many thanks for your replies! You are great!!! I start to sort out my worksheet accordingly now.
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