Dorico (Pro 5) automatically insets in the next measure a natural when the note was sharped in previous measure (or the reserse situation) on the basis that a temporarily sharped note is no longer sharped in the next measure. In that situation it would be nice i there were a way to have Dorico place parentheses around the accidnetal to indicate it’s just a reminder. This is especially helpful when the note in the previous measure was in a different octave.
This image is for the written description and the music is in key of G. Note in the second measure (treble staff) how Dorico automatically put a natural on the E, but in the previous measure is was sharpened an octave down. In the bass staff the G was sharpened in the first measure, then Doricao automaticall placed a natural sign in fron of the first occurrence of the G in the second measure shown. Each second occurence would preferable have parentheses around the accidental notation.
As part of this topic, I’d also like to know how I can delete those accidentals put in by Dorico if I would like to.
The rules for how Dorico handles these cautionary accidentals can be configured in Notation Options > Accidentals > Cautionary Accidentals.
You can hide/show/parenthesize any specific accidental in the lower Properties panel.
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I couldn’t figure out how to get to “Notation Options”, since under the edit menu Optionss was not a topic within the Notations selection. So I looked up “Notation Options” in the Dorico menu and found that I needed to select the “library” topic and Notation Options was a topic with a variety of choices, one of which looks like it will work the way I (and my singers) prefer.
May I suggest that for future replies to questions that involve going to a topic in Dorico you briefly mention how to get to that option. I have found in the past that sometimes there is not an obvious path to the functions needed to make a selection.
Thanks,
Bob Sellman
Hi @BobS, you can use the Web Help (Online manual), and search for the item that you don’t know. Here an example:
And @asherber tells you exactly where, in that Options, you can find what you are looking for:
As Dorico has developed things have moved. Yes that can be confusing.
But the basic shortcuts have never changed,
ctrl-shift-N (notation options)
ctrl-shift-L (layout options)
ctrl-shift-E (engraving options)
99% of what you need to change are behind these three key strokes.
Using the Engraving, Notation and Layout Options is pretty fundamental to working with Dorico, so I’d suggest watching some of the introductory videos on YouTube to help you famliarize yourself with what there is, and where to find it.
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