A couple of little quirks I've noticed...

Dorico
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Hi,

I’ve been using Dorico for more than a year now and I’ve really enjoyed learning how you guys go about things and couldn’t even imagine going back to my former notation software.

However, there’s a couple of things that I’ve noticed that haven’t gone away in any of the updates (I’ve been around since v. 1.5).

When I switch from Write mode to Engrave mode, the score view jumps around, ie doesn’t stay focused on the bar/item I had selected in the previous mode. This leads to an awful lot of tedious dragging around the score to get back to where I was working before I switched modes.

They key command to open the properties panel (ctrl-8 in Windows) often doesn’t work unless I open (and/or close) the left panel (ctrl-7) first.

Both of these problems seem to be at random and I can’t replicate them all the time, but they happen often enough to be annoying.

If anyone could shed any light on any of these, that’d be great.

Pierce

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  1. Make sure you keep something selected on the page before you switch modes.
  2. The Cmd/Ctrl-0 shortcut sort of works as a toggle. If you’ve toggled all panels off using it, the expectation seems to be that you’ll use Cmd/Ctrl-0 to toggle them back on. Cmd/Ctrl-8 won’t necessarily override Cmd/Ctrl-0.
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For me it doesn’t matter if something is selected or not, almost never scrolls to the right place when going from write to engrave.

Jesper

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This has been complained about before and AFAICS it’s better since version 3 but it still happens a bit and I still find it disorienting. It seems to happen less if you don’t have an exact zoom percentage or fit to window selected.

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Thanks Vaughan, will try different zoom settings.

Jesper

Edit: changing zoom from 112% (full page landscape) to 108% makes all the difference.
I also noticed before that with whole page or page width zoom levels, move to next/previous page
doesn’t always work. So I often have to change the zoom slightly.