Hi Folks,
I finally purchased Dorico Pro 3.1 with a view to eventually ending my Sibelius subscription.
Ok it’s relatively hard going because I have used Sibelius for 20 years.
I like going in at the deep end so I have started editing an XML file exported from Sibelius.
It’s a piano piece by Albinez - ‘Almeria’ from Book 2 of the ‘Iberia’ suite. It has a number of irregularities, the first one being that in bar 2 the left hand has 2 voices in 6/8 - top voice is 3 quavers, crotchet & quaver - bottom voice dotted minim. The first note is the same in both voices requiring the quaver notehead to be hidden while the Minim takes it’s place.
So, I found out how to edit that by trial & error and page 400 of the manual it took a while to get it right.
So far so good. Now this pattern appears quite a number of times & I have been trying to copy the entire bar into all the subsequent occurrences. No go - the notes get copied but the ‘re-spacing’ doesn’t. Also the first quaver who’s notehead I made invisible (in the note editor) is reproduced as a rest. It appears that the only way to sort this out is to laboriously edit each bar. Surely there must be a workaround!!
Any ideas anyone?
I haven’t even mentioned the section later which requires one bar of 4/4 over 2 bars of 6/8. That I’m leaving for another day.
Best wishes everyone.
Jeff Wraight