Erasing the background of left-hand fingerings inside the staff

By default in Dorico Pro, left-hand fingerings have erased backgrounds because they are often placed in the staff on staff lines. You can change whether individual left-hand fingerings have erased backgrounds or not. You can do this for the current layout and frame chain only or for all layouts and frame chains.

Note

These steps only apply to left-hand fingerings belonging to fretted instruments.

Prerequisite

  • Graphic Editing is selected in the Engrave toolbox.

  • You have chosen the appropriate property scope for local properties.

Procedure

  1. In Engrave mode, select the left-hand fingerings whose background erasure you want to change.
  2. In the Properties panel, activate Erase background in the Fingering and Positions group.
  3. Activate/Deactivate the corresponding checkbox.

Result

The backgrounds of the selected left-hand fingerings are erased when the checkbox is activated, and not erased when the checkbox is deactivated. If the property scope was set to Locally, this change only takes effect in the current layout and frame chain.

When the property is deactivated, left-hand fingerings follow your project-wide setting for erased backgrounds.

Tip

You can find the default setting for erasing the backgrounds of all left-hand fingerings project-wide by clicking Advanced Options in the Design section of the Fingering page in Engrave > Engraving Options.

Example

Figure 1. Left-hand fingerings with erased backgrounds
Figure 2. Left-hand fingerings without erased backgrounds