When I turn on condensing in this little example, the breath mark disappears.
Breath mark vanishes.dorico (636.7 KB)
Hi @HeiPet
If you select the breath sign in Galley view, and right click → Paste special/Duplicate to staff above, it will condense. (Or you can use the playing technique workaround in the below linked thread)
This was already been discussed here:
It seems that the breath mark in only one staff doesn’t consent to condense in normal conditions, and if you force the condensing (with a manual condensing group or a condensing change), it will disappear. Putting it in both instruments let it show up in the condensed view.
To hide it in the Trumpet 1 part, you can select it in Galley view in score (or in the part) with Globally scope active, and put the opacity to 0% with the color property.
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Hi, @Christian_R , thank you for your help, but I don’t need help, to make the breath mark appear. For me it’s always very frightening, when things just disappear in Dorico. In large project it’s very likely to miss something like this. Therefore I would like to let the team know about this.
The breath mark needs to be present in both instruments in order to appear in the condensed music. This is why the music won’t condense automatically as things stand, because the breath mark is incompatible.
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Hi @dspreadbury , some publishers don’t allow breath marks before a rest. Therefore I can’t write a breath mark in Trumpet 1 as well. I would prefer, if Dorico writes the breath mark when condensing, instead of deleting/hiding it. Perhaps there could be an option to choose to show or hide breath marks, when there is only a breath mark in one of the players.
Infuriating. It has a very useful meaning for ensemble, namely that there should be some space before the downbeat (as you probably know well).
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