Correct. When I have a text box open, I can copy (when I paste in TextEdit I´ll get boxed question marks, when I paste to Notes, I get the actual letters, when paste to Pages I also get letters), but can’t paste in Dorico itself.
uh, that’s a head scratcher.. it seems something with the font you copy from is not standard..
Could you point us to the website you’re trying to copy from, and to what material you want to copy? Like @k_b says this seems to have something to do with the source material. What happens if you paste it in a different app as plain text (i.e. without keeping the source formatting, perhaps into Notes, since you mention you do get letters there), and then copy that again and paste it into Shift+X text?
Sounds more like encoding than font. @Zalde has the procedure to test that theory: Paste into an app that can render it correctly and then copy from that app into Dorico.
Simon,
you won’t believe it, I experimented further:
I copied some text from this webpage (actually from your first message).
Then opened a document in Dorico, went to Write Mode.
I selected a note, I did a paste with Cmd-V - and Dorico has automatically inserted the text as Staff-attached text. This means, I even did not need to open the Staff text panel with Shift-X, that step isn’t necessary here.
If I still decide to start with Shift-X, I are able to paste and format the text.
One thing I noticed though, a speciality from this webpage here: I copied only the first sentence, the clipboard consisted of the whole 1st. paragraph..
Dear all, thank you for all your help. Sudden silence from me was due to the forum making me wait for 8 hours before I could make another reply, since it´s my first post…
k_b, I can also paste directly by selecting a note, thanks !
@derAbgang & Zalde, I´ve tried that; formatting text in TextEdit, and then try to paste. Still with no luck.
But it still annoys me, that I can’t copy/paste within Dorico, and still haven´t found a way to do it in the engraving text box…
To be continued
Yet everyone else can! (though I’m puzzled by your reference to the engraving text box. There is no such box in Engrave)
I know, and assume that everyone else can. It´s obvious that you can do it, and how it works. Just not in my Dorico.
In engraving you can insert a text frame…
OK. That is the first time you have mentioned text frames. Your initial post referenced system text (and the conversation has been about Write mode text shift-X and alt-shift-X)
To paste into a (green) text frame in Engrave you must first double click inside it. Then you can paste from the clipboard.
My clipboard doesn’t work in the textframe either. It seems like whenever the font/textedit-pop-over is open, the copy/paste functions doesn’t work.
Simon, in all respect, this looks like user error.
May be we could get a little screencast of what you are trying to do?
1.) which mode are you in? Write Mode or Engrave Mode?
2.) are you trying to edit a page template?
3.) if yes, you will be dealing with Text Frames.
4.) to edit the contents of a Text Frame, you will have to enter it first. You can do this by double-clicking on it, or by pressing the Tab key immediately after creating one.
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It won’t work if you copy from an app that doesn’t display the characters to begin with. You stated above that you do see the correct letters when pasting into Notes or Pages. Try copying from there into Dorico to see what happens. Alternatively, try pasting without formatting into a text editor before copying again. I’m on Windows where you can paste as plain text using Ctrl+Shift+V. Google tells me that Cmd+Shift+V should do the same on Mac (but I wouldn’t know). Answering @k_b 's questions above would also be helpful, as well as telling us a bit more about the source material.
SOLVED ! Thank you all for relevant ideas and questions. All of that led me to more try-outs with different short-cut combinations: Cmd+Fn+V does the trick.
great