Hi,
I’ve got a score with quite a lot of text (Shift + x) , which should have been entered as System Text (Shift + Alt + x). Is there a clever way to change this quickly? Would save me some time.
Heiko
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HeiPet, I don’t mean to hijack your thread, but maybe we can “kill two birds with one stone”.
Can anyone please explain the difference between standard text and system text? A search of the forum and the latest PDF guide offer no explanation.
System text (ALT+SHIFT+X) mimics Tempo text and appears in every part layout printed even if it only shows on selected staff positions of the full score. Regular (SHIFT+X) text appears only on the staff you attach it to.
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Thanks, Derrek.
There is no way to convert staff-attached text to system-attached text, I’m afraid.
Is there a way to HIDE system-attached text in a part(s)?
Drag it off the page in engrave mode, or set its color to white (or transparency to zero).
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Would the color/transparency setting effect the conductor’s score? (will experiment later, but curious if you know )
No. Engrave mode is pretty much universally layout-specific.
Color/transparency can be done from Write mode as well, but the principle is that any changes made via the properties panel at the bottom are layout-specific unless they’re explicitly propagated.
This works! Good solution.
One more question… is it possible to “Select All” of the system-attached text used in multiple flows? I can use “Select More” to collect all items in a Flow, but it doesn’t go beyond that.
Selection is rigidly flow-specific. Sorry!
Well… only 48 more Flows to go!
I can’t help but think there might be a better way of doing this: if this is text that should ONLY appear in the conductor score, how about entering it as Staff Text? That way, you only need to do one lot of dragging/making transparent, in whatever instrument’s part layout the text is attached to.
It was requested by the composer to include all conductor text cues in the Vln 1 part. Once we completed the score, he’s requested we hide SOME of them but not all of them. So… I would haven’t included any, imho… but they pay so they get to make the call (right or wrong).
Footenote: You can Ctrl+Click across Flows. Helps somewhat.
What about implementing the ctrl+shift+h function? I was a regular user of that on Sib.
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I would like to state first that the developers of Dorico are doing a great job. I really don’t want to go back to Finale anymore 
Having said that, I think their focus should be on small improvements like this request and others like for instance clicking a chord,symbol, shift clicking another one a few measures later and that all chords in between are selected. I have a whole bunch of those.
For those of you owning a Streamdeck or another way of creating a range of hotkey actions coupled to one hotkey. One could do the following: Configure your streamdeck to do all the following actions in a row:
CMD+C
BACKSPACE
SHIFT+OPTION+X
CMD+V
ESC
Then in Dorico in Write mode, just click on the text you want to convert to system text and press your streamdeck button holding the multiaction.
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Whoah this thread’s out of date!
You should find that if you select a chord symbol then Ctrl/Cmd-click another chord symbol, then type Ctrl/Cmd-Shift-A (Select More) all the chord symbols in between get selected.
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But there is still no command to convert staff text to system text. I just tried scripting such an operation, and a few steps can be automated. But if there are any style alterations in the original text block, they are lost when pasting into the new one – even if you open the original, select all the text and Copy. (So it’s no better than just selecting the original and Copying.)