Is there a way to tell Dorico which symbol to use when it makes a “Wiggly Line” glissando? I’ve found that for both Bravura and Finale Maestro, it is using the “Wiggle trill fastest” symbol from the “Edit Music Symbol” window, but other fonts (like Finale Broadway) use the “Wiggle trill” symbol. Really, I’d just like it to use the “Glissando wiggle segment” but I can’t find anyway to tell it to use that, aside from changing the glyph used for one of the above symbols, which will in turn affect any other lines using that glyph.
As a 20+ year Finale user, one way to make former Finale users happy would be to make the Finale fonts default to whatever their “Glissando wiggle segment” glyph is, rather than the odd choice of using trill symbols.
Hi Michael, and welcome to the forum!
If you want to change one straight gliss line to wiggly, select it and, in Properties (the lower zone), change the Glissando style.
If you want the wiggly line style everywhere, there is a setting in Engraving Options > Glissando Lines. Check out the other options there too. The “gliss.” text shows only if there is enough room for it (unless you turn it off).
If you want all your future projects to use the style, click the Save As Default button in the lower-left corner of Engraving Options.
I find that changing the font via Library > Music Fonts… does indeed change the wiggle segment glyph along with it.
Thanks for your response, Mark. I ended up writing Keyboard Maestro shortcuts so I can quickly use both the straight line and wiggly one, depending on the scenario. The Properties panel info is really nice so you can edit if you want it to say “port.” or “gliss.” etc.
I’ve been getting in pretty deep in creating a template, and I love that Dorico allows you in the Library>Music Symbols… to change individual glyphs if you want to use something from a different library, or just change the size of the existing glyph to suit your tastes.
The thing I find slightly puzzling is that each SMuFL does contain a glyph called “Glissando wiggle segment” and yet it seems that when assigning a Music Font, Dorico doesn’t use that glyph by default for the Wiggy Gliss line. I was hoping that perhaps somewhere there is a checkbox that allows you to specify which symbol is used, especially since I found that different Music fonts actually point to an entirely different symbol. I’ll post some screenshots for clarity.
Here’s what the wiggly gliss. line looks like by default using Finale Maestro as the Music Font. Bravura’s looks very similar, so I don’t bother to take a screenshot for brevity.
Here’s the “Glissando wiggle segment” I’d like it to use to create the gliss. I don’t see any way to specify that it should use this in creating a gliss. mark.
Here’s the symbol that it actually uses to create the gliss. (Wiggle trill fastest). I confirmed this by changing its size to 150% and saw it change on-screen after doing so.
Here’s what the gliss. line looks like using Finale Engraver font.
Here’s the Music Symbol that is used to create the wiggly line, which again I confirmed by changing its size (this time, it’s just the regular “Wiggle trill” symbol). Very strange that it’s a different Music Symbol entirely, and still not the “Glissando wiggle segment”!
