I’m curious to know if there’s a way to tell Dorico to add a courtesy accidental to a pitch when the next pitch occurs several bars after the pitch that is being “cancelled.”
I’m aware of the settings that govern this in the same bar in other octaves and in adjacent bars (for example, I have an F-sharp in Bar 1, followed by an F-natural in Bar 2 and the natural sign appears automatically in Bar 2), but what if several bars fall in between these two occurrences?
I realize this can be done manually, but it would be great if there was an automation so there was an option to set the courtesy accidental to appear on the next occurrence of the modified note no matter how much space is between them.
This has been something I and others have requested as well. In Finale, it was feasible only through plugins, and it was very clunky in many ways (often one plugin would add cautionary accidentals to every note, and then I’d invoke a different plugin to clear all of the unnecessary ones). Dorico has a lot more options for cautionary accidentals, but it seems odd that it won’t allow the user to specify (in preferences) the range (in measures) to be checked, including in other staves (I know of nothing in Dorico that automatically checks other staves for potential conflicts, and sometimes having a cautionary in parenthesis in a different staff can be helpful to clarify that the lack of the same sharp or flat wasn’t a mistake). Yes, one can use CMD-R (or ctl-R in windows) to do this, but I’ve found that to be somewhat mystical in terms of what results.
Totally agreed on all counts. I was a 20+ year power-user veteran of Finale before they evaporated and I must say I absolutely LOVE Dorico. Still, no matter how many times I proof my work I always seem to miss a handful of these (which sometimes makes the ones I caught or planned more mysterious; consistency is key!). Thanks for chiming in!
