Hello,
I need to do some sul pont / sul tasto / ord. lines like this one.. :
but I don’t find my way. …what I remember it was “easy” but, help ?
solid line w right arrow and the texts attached…
jjj
Select the two playing techniques, right-click→Playing techniques→Group playing techniques.
Jesper
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thank you jesper ! I’ll take that. I think this was what you showed me long ago..
if I wanted to build a little “library” with all these ord>sp ord>st sp>ord etc etc.. how do I do that ? or no one does that ? since it’s so simple to group ?
jjj
Sadly … you don’t …
Even as powerful as lines currently are, the fact that one cannot insert them via a popover and thus a search bar makes them very slow. As soon as the number of lines increases you will spend your days scrolling up and down a list which is not too logically ordered (it seems). Then SVG-based lines will get lost against the dark background and it is not possible to have a line that has both an arrow end cap and a symbol.
For now Playing Techniques are the way.
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ok, I hear you.
/joakim
Well, it is, but probably too much work
Jesper
A repeatable symbols line. (SP is a repeatable object added to the start, and >ORD) is one added to the end.
Jesper
sp-ord.dorico (543.1 KB)
Solid line with music symbol caps.
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Or, you could use a regular solid line with music symbols start and end caps.
Jesper
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These really should be playing techniques, though, and not generic lines, so the premise that it should be possible to create a library of such lines is wrong-headed.
You can quickly create grouped playing techniques via the Shift+P popover as described in this thread, and you can always set up macros (either directly in Dorico or using third-party software) if you simply must have a quicker way of creating a group of playing techniques than typing via the popover.
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Agreed, and you can easily copy/paste or alt-click the whole group.
Jesper
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I actually did playing technics : (sp and another : ord) (with the half parenthesis) and then grouped them. with a shortcut cmd-alt-g
perhaps there could be difficulties if someone one day wanted a dashed line instead of solid… ?
/jjj
how did you put the texts at start and end ? I only find this list of arrowheads etc
I think we all need the SP→ORD all the time! [I do, anyway.] Some very good assistance here.
You can specify what kind of line should be used in Library > Playing Techniques.
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aha. ‘but’ then that line is bound to that playing technique.. (?)
still good.. thank you /j
I do something wrong, if I choose continuation line dashed on the twe playing techniques I still have a solid line when I group them.
I’m so slow sorry.. help ?
found it.
why these “long” and “short” choices ?
I put long and it wasn’t dashed until it was longer. short it was solid. is this a wanted functionality ?
sincerely,
j
You can always change them in the properties panel in Engrave mode.
Jesper
Or change the transition line in the editor
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of course ! that’s also an option !
good ! 
/jj
You still need an answer to this?
Jesper
yes please. just to know..! jjj