Here’s a request. This is something that Finale, Sibelius or Dorico never got right.
When I add an arpeggio line to a piano chord it properly adjusts its length to the height of the chord. But when I add an arpeggio symbol to a slash symbol (an extremely common notation in jazz/rock guitar music) the height of the slash is for one note, so it is unreadable to any player. So for 25 years, I’ve been manually stretching out arpeggio lines in every notation software. How about having the arpeggio line added to any slash notation defaulting to the height of a 5th?
For such peculiar cases, it is very fast to select the passage with a marquee selection (or Select All in write mode), then in Engrave mode, filter the properties panel for arpeggio, using the Search field, that you can also activate with Option(Alt)+8, and set all your arpeggios top and bottom Y offsets all at once:
For curved arpeggio signs you can already set a minimum length, so it could possibly be implemented also for other arpeggio signs? :
Are you saying using an arpeggio on a guitar’s slash notation is a peculiar case? I would say it is an extremely common case for the notation of popular music - unless you consider popular music a peculiar case in general.
And won’t your method also change the arpeggios applied to normal (non-slash) notation, which are working properly? So that would necessitate going through my score and selecting only those arpeggios applied to slash notation. Not a time saver I suspect.
How about having Dorico actually coding arpeggios to follow common notation practices?
Well, you’d be selecting the bars with slash notation, not each arpeggio individually. (Or use a filter, as @Christian_R suggests.) You could also easily record a user script to make the adjustments to X and Y offsets, so that it would be as simple as selecting the passage and then invoking your script (from the Script menu, or from the jump bar, or with a programmed key command).
Of course the devs will see your feature request, but in the meantime a method like this may make things a little easier for you.
@michaelstarobin
Sorry, English in not my first language. I should have used “particular case” or “specific case” case or just “in this case” instead, or just show the workflow without commentary
I didn’t intend to belittle your very valid request, which I supported in the last part of my post:
(Until your feature request will be implemented) It is possible to Select All in Write mode, and then Filter for slash voice, so you can only change (in Engrave mode) the Properties for the slash voices arpeggios:
That use of “peculiar” has become somewhat archaic in American English now, I think, but it used to be standard, about 50 years ago or more. I remember in my distant youth, reading that some point of view “was peculiar” to a certain author. And I thought that it meant that the author found it odd, when in fact it was saying that it was a personal habit of the author.
I may be quite wrong about the timing @Christian_R – I was just giving my impression from my reading, and my experiences with teachers having to explain their use of the word, that long ago.
