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Handling Fonts in Dorico
Music scores typically consist of many notation elements, including glyphs like clefs and accidentals, and text elements like titles and composer names. Professional music notation software allows you to choose from a variety of fonts for each notation element. In Finale, music fonts are set from the “Document menu > Set Music Fonts”, and many other fonts can be set from “Document Options > Fonts”. For individual text, double-clicking often takes you through the editing scree

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4 days ago6 min read


Reproducing the Finale v27 Japanese version chord suffix library in Sibelius
In the previous article , I talked about how Dorico Pro version 6 finally allows users to create their own chord symbol libraries with a...

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Jun 245 min read


Dorico Pro 6’s chord symbols customize function now closes to the level of Finale (Part 2)
As a continuation of the previous article , which mainly introduced the chord symbol editing function before Dorico Pro 5, this article...

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Jun 912 min read


Dorico Pro 6’s chord symbols customize function now closes to the level of Finale (Part 1)
Dorico Pro 6, which was released on May 1st in Japan, 2025, has been updated with many features . In terms of chord symbols, the most...

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Jun 29 min read


MusGlyphs and Metrico: Music text fonts that allow you to easily input music symbols such as Swing
For example, let's think about a case of inputting the following music symbols that indicate a swing feel into a score. In Finale, this...

tarokoike
May 153 min read


Comparison of Chaconne EX, a music font for the Japanese published scores, and the main SMuFL fonts currently in use
In a previous article , I pointed out the issue that music fonts such as Kousaku and Chaconne, which have been used in the Japanese...

tarokoike
Nov 2, 20246 min read
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