Is this possible?
I think a cresc. at the start is much clearer than a cre-
Does anyone know a solution to this, or have found a work-around?
Thx for a great forum
Arne
I think you have three choices, if you want text instead of hairpins.
Did you have something different in mind?
Edit: Oh, I guess you might want cresc. - - - poco - - a - - poco. That’s not an option that Dorico allows. You could try putting just cresc. as a dynamic and then creating a line with the rest of the text. I’m wrong – @Zalde has the answer.
Hello @sandsang ,
Yes, you can, like this in the proprerties:
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This is the right window Andre, but to distribute text evenly one needs to choose another gradual style called cre-scen-do, and I want that to be an unhyphened word, but the combination of the two is not an option I think
You can if you check Abbreviate in the Properties
There was also a recent topic where @johnkprice did some experiments to influence the positions of the poco a poco, if you’re interested.
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The abbreviate button did it, thank you guys,
remains only to get rid of the hyphenation.
Lovely
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Without the hyphens, there’s no indication that the text is all part of one phrase. You’d have:
To me as a performer, that would be confusing, especially over a longer passage.
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I agree.
Jesper
But keep in mind that the PDF spec says that a 0-width line should be drawn as “the thinnest line that the device can produce”. So if you make a PDF with a 0-width line and then print the PDF, you’re likely to see a thin line there.
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Me too, but in this instance the passage is quite short. And as a copyist I must try to comply with the composer’s writing as much as I can. Thanx for making me know Dorico better. It really is a flexible notation software.
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So hiding stuff in Dorico is not a good option?
It depends. If you’re always printing from Dorico to a printer, then a 0-width line should be fine. But if you’re exporting to PDF and printing later – or sending the PDFs to someone else to print – then you may get some unexpected hairlines. Note that this is not Dorico’s fault; it’s the way the PDF spec is written.
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You are right. I would label this topic as a feature request for the team 
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Oh, interesting – a zero length line may be okay, as opposed to a zero width line.
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The zero dash length trick works to get an invisible horizontal line with the line tool, if I recall correctly from posts on the forum, so this might just work as well!