Creating Cues in Imported XML Individual Part

While Dorico’s cue notes feature is amazing, and @judddanby gives the correct way of using it to get the desired result, in some cases it may be more than is needed, and this might be one of them – depends a bit on how many cues there are, from how many different source instruments, and whether it’s worth setting up the extra players.

An alternative approach would be to set the upstem voice 1 notes to cue size in the Properties panel. Then use the bars and barlines popover to input a bar rest into downstem voice 1 in the first bar, and copy or Alt+click that rest into other bars as needed.

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When engraving a standalone part like this, I’ve done things both ways; as I said, it depends on which one seems like less work for the particular job.

Here’s the Dorico project:

Nutcracker.dorico (425.1 KB)

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