Changing default gradual tempo change text

Dorico
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Hello Dorico users,

I’m looking to change the fact that the Shift+T popover only respects Italian words. For example, if I highlight multiple bars and type “ritardando” or “rit.” in the popover, it will place a gradual tempo change with that text and a line (as marked in Engraving options). However, if I want my gradual tempo changes in any other language, I can try to type “desacel.” or “ralentizando” but it won’t appear with a line and act the same as a ritardando. I have to first type rit. and then change in the properties panel to “ral.” or “desacel.” etc.

I’m looking for a way that I can simply type my desired language into the popover every time rather than drafting with Italian and changing every single gradual tempo change manually in the properties panel at the end of the composing process. Can someone help me do so?

Things I’ve tried:

Manually changing each gradual tempo change in the properties panel
Selecting multiple gradual tempo changes and changing them all at once in the properties panel
Searching paragraph/music/style fonts to change which word is used for gradual tempo changes
Looking in engraving options to have a default abbreviation other than “rit.” or “rall.”

If anyone can be of help, thank you very much!

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I don’t think you can change the language that the popover understands; it’s tied to specific strings.

But you can add your own predefined strings that Dorico will recognize.

Dorico user config files are stored in c:\Users\<username>\AppData\Roaming\Steinberg\Dorico 6 on Windows and /Users/<username>/Library/Application Support/Steinberg/Dorico 6

Create a folder called DefaultLibraryAdditions if one does not already exist. (Note: no spaces in name.)

Put the following text into a text editor (like Notepad or BBEdit – not Word) and save it in the DefaultLibraryAdditions folder as SpanishTempi.doricolib.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<kScoreLibrary>
    <tempoPresetDefinitions>
        <entities array="true">
            <TempoPresetDefinition>
				<name>desacelerando</name>
				<entityID>tempopreset.desacel</entityID>
				<parentEntityID/>
				<inheritanceMask>0</inheritanceMask>
				<abbreviatedName>desacel.</abbreviatedName>
				<isGradual>true</isGradual>
				<amount>75</amount>
			</TempoPresetDefinition>
        </entities>
    </tempoPresetDefinitions>
</kScoreLibrary>

When you restart Dorico, you’ll see that this new tempo appears in the Gradual Tempo Change section of the Tempo panel, and it’s also recognized by the Tempo popover.

You can add as many of these as you like to the same file – just copy the section from <TempoPresetDefinition> to </TempoPresetDefinition>, and change the entries appropriately, so that your file looks like this:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<kScoreLibrary>
    <tempoPresetDefinitions>
        <entities array="true">
            <TempoPresetDefinition>
				name, etc. ... 
			</TempoPresetDefinition>
            <TempoPresetDefinition>
				name, etc. ... 
			</TempoPresetDefinition>
        </entities>
    </tempoPresetDefinitions>
</kScoreLibrary>
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