I would like to achieve what is written in the staff at the bottom of the attached image.
① When the actual note value becomes unclear after converting to an unusual notehead, I want to indicate the note value by adding a small parenthesized note above the note.
② When I try to tie two quarter notes together, as in the 2/4 measure of the first staff, Dorico automatically changes them to half notes, and the note division I want is not maintained. For example, when playing the same note with a longer note value, I don’t change the note or bowing, but I want to indicate the start of a crescendo that starts partway through, and it would be inconvenient if the note value were automatically changed.
③ I set the rest indication method in Library → notation option to always show a beam, but when I try to do as in measure 3, the crosshead is divided into 32nd note + 32nd rest + 16th rest + 8th rest, which is not what I want.
First of all, is it possible to momentarily change the notation method set in Library options?
You can add these notes in an additional upstem voice. In Write mode, you can suppress playback and change their scale to Cue size (or to a custom size), and in Engrave mode you can give them rounded brackets. (These are all in the Properties panel.) I also flipped the ties
When you want to force a particular kind of notation, you can use Force Duration.
Set Notation Options > Rests > Simple Time Time Signatures > Rests at the end of simple beats to “Allow dotted rests”.
In the example you showed, the note specifying the note value is too close to the top line of the staff, so I would like to raise the note position a little more, and also remove the ledger lines (lines attached to notes above La) that appear when doing so for just those notes. For example, if the notes for performance are in the Do or Ré position on the ledger lines, I would like to leave the ledger lines for those notes, but remove the ledger lines for the notes that indicate the note value. Please tell me how to remove ledger lines for just specific notes.
Hi @ehitonandakedone, an alternative way to add such cues, is to create a new player (into a group to avoid automatic renumbering) dedicated to cues: write in it the music that you want to appear as cue, then apply a cue referring to that player as Rhythmic Cue:
Thanks to everyone’s patient advice, I’ve come this far. But I have one more question.
The dot indicating the dotted quarter note on the cue note in the first measure is too close to the bracket, so I’d like to adjust its position. Where should I adjust it?
You can adjust it in Engrave mode. It looks like you can’t actually move it graphically, but in the Properties panel there’s a “Rhythm dot X” property that you can adjust.
The dot is trying to avoid the (hidden) ledger line. To center the dot vertically with the notehead, try moving the note pitch up or down (so the note is in the imaginary space between two lines).
