Hi all - when I create a Slash Region with additional notation (normal notation in another voice, or cues), I notice that any additional quarter notes are a bit to the left, and aren’t well-aligned over the slash below. The alignment is OK with any smaller subdivision.
In both of these examples, notice the difference in measure 1 (containing quarter note rhythms) compared to measure 2 (in which the quarter note rhythms have been changed to 8th notes).
I’m able to fix individual notes using some methods in Engrave mode (the Note Spacing tool, and/or adjusting “voice column” settings in the Properties panel). However, this is very tedious and I’d like this to be well-aligned by default. Any ideas on how to fix this?
Hi @mikepintoguitar, I tried and was able to reproduce your issue.
Here below three examples where the issue occurs. Changing the Concert clef to none [EDIT: or setting the slash position to -4] for the first example, and changing the Slash position to -2 for the second and third example, seems to establish vertical order again. Don’t know what is causing this (something implicit, in the middle of the staff, that pushes the slashes in an undesired horizontal position? It looks as if the “voices columns” are not aligned, before changing the slashes position for example)
I made a video to show the behaviour, and attach the Dorico file for further experimentation:
@Christian_R thank you! This is very, very helpful. The methods you show in the video also work for me, and from the post you linked in your “Add-on,” I found this quote illuminating:
It’s as though Dorico considers the slash and the note (or cue) above it to be like two quarter notes (one stem up, one stem down) occupying the same rhythmic position, and thus offset a bit from each other. And so, this offset is removed/corrected by increasing the distance between them (intervallic-ly in my hypothetical two-quarter-notes example, or graphically in the solutions you suggest).
While I (think I) understand why this behavior is now occurring, it seems to me that this behavior is appropriate for the above two quarter note examples, but in the case of my original vertical slash-alignment issue, I do NOT relish having to manually fix all occasions of this issue. It would be great if this could somehow be corrected globally…
And, I think I’ve solved it. (Although I may be causing another problem that I’ve yet to discover…)
Engraving Options > Notes > Voices: change the “default gap between notes in different voices” to zero. This seems to fix all of the aforementioned alignment issues.
Again, I imagine I might encounter some issues of traditional notation with notes in opposing voices (with no slashes nor cues), but I suppose I’ll deal with that in the future…
