Dear all,
in a condensed staff I have a rest shared by two flutes.
Its position is wrong (collapsing).
With the Property panel it’s impossible to move up the rest (I tried even big values as shown).
The rests are fine in scroll view:
Any idea?
Thanks!
Hard to tell from a picture.
This is what I get. Is that an f dynamic you have only in the top staff?
Jesper
with a dynamic only in the top staff I get the same as yours and can’t change the rest.
Unfortunately it is not yet possible to edit the vertical positions of rests in condensed staves. This remains a significant limitation in Dorico’s condensing feature, and one that we will address as soon as we are able.
The current workaround is to create a new notehead set containing a 32nd notehead that looks like a 32nd rest, add 32nd notes where the rests should go, apply the new notehead set to these notes, suppress their playback, and hide their stems and ledger lines in engrave mode:
Thanks John: your workaround is a bit complicated but if it’s the only solution, I’ll proceed.
Thanks Jesper: the problem is there, on my file, with or without dynamics, on one staff or on both of them…
Thanks Daniel: of course it’s not about the pleasure to move a condensed rest but about a bug (?) that in a condensation, in some circumstances (?), moves a rest from its perfect position – and as a Finale professional user for more than 30 years, I’m now so enthousiastic about Dorico Pro then I tend to consider that it’s impossible that there are some bugs, so rilevant in this case : ))
Nicola
Dear John,
I tryed but if, in a new notehead, I set a 32nd notehead that looks like a 32nd rest, all the 32nd notehead change.
And if I add a new 32nd notehead, even chosing the new notehead set, I don’t know how to tell Dorico to use that notehead instead of the standard 32nd – the new created notehed isn’t among the choices that I see on the menu (X sized, triangular and so on).
Thanks
I’m sorry you’re having trouble working with notehead sets. It can take some time and experimentation to learn how to work with them correctly. To spare you that effort, I have created a project containing a notehead set with rest noteheads for half notes down to 64th notes:
Rest Noteheads.dorico (427.1 KB)
To use this notehead set in a project, open the project, execute Library > Library Manager, click Dorico Project in the upper right corner of the dialog, and select the Rest Noteheads project. Then select Noteheads Sets in the left column, scroll to locate Rest Noteheads in the list of notehead sets, hover the mouse pointer over the not equal sign until it changes to a left arrow and click on it. Finally, click Apply and Close.
To apply the rest noteheads to some notes, select the notes and execute Edit > Notations > Notehead > Rest Noteheads. Then suppress playback of the notes and hide their stems and ledger lines in engrave mode.
Thank you so much, John. Now it worked perfectly!
