Some more. The first two are really about repeat bars in many ways
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Glissando lines look great. However, if we use them inside a “repeat al fine” and there is no object note after the final gliss, that final gliss cannot be written. (The final repeat bar is not written in the pic as I was testing something and it got deleted, but the same problem arises when both repeat bars are notated).
I was able to use another voice, and hide it by setting the colour to transparent etc … as a workaround. but it is less than ideal. I assume this is similar to having ties over repeat bars.
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Something else about repeat al fine: when ending a piece with such a looped repeat (think of Holst’s Neptune), any part layout that has one or more silent bars at the end of the repeat will show “Tacet al fine” by default, which means the musicians will not know when to go back to the beginning of the repeat. Now, of course, one can simply turn that off, but that feature is a global engraving feature and would therefore not be available for any layout or any flow once turned off.
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Still about glissandi, they display and print at a wrong angle when crossing systems.
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When instruments are ticked off from flows, they don’t create a Tacet page. If I leave the instrument ticked on, I can then have tacets, but if there the “silent” flow start with an upbeat, or if there are repeats etc … then we see empty multirests and “tacet al fine”.
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Selecting notes in engrave mode is at times difficult, especially at lower magnification.
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When an instrument change happens in the next measure (which can happen in percussion), like let’s say, you hit the snare drum at the 1st beat of bar 43 and the triangle at bar 44, the default behaviour is to write “To Triangle”. Writing “Triangle” only would be far less confusing for the player.
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In writing notes with both 8va and the natural harmonic sign, the 8va sign displaces the harmonic symbol upwards. I think it does this for most techniques symbols, but it is difficult to read. I moved them in engrave mode
That’s it for now. I think I can now match speed with Sibelius on most projects by now. Practice always works! I’ll be even faster with more selection tools and filters, but I’m really thinking in “Dorico” now (except when I type Ctrl-E for dynamics … aaargh! … another couple of weeks should do it)
