Is there a fix for this issue?
One way: Select the Bb in the cue, set its voice column index to 1, hide the accidental, and then adjust its voice column spacing offset (using the Properties panel or its square handle in note spacing mode).
You might also prefer to have the notes separated, just by putting them in different voice columns.
(Of course, by default Dorico is just correctly aligning the left side of the noteheads.)
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Do you mean make these adjustments in the source staff? Because whatever I do to the cue in the target staff, it also changes the note there. Does this mean I have to create yet another “cue only” staff?
And, by default, the correct alignment in this case is upper stem to the right edge of the played note.
Yes, I made the changes in the target staff. The voice column and spacing changes don’t affect the source, but you’re right that hiding the accidental affects both staves.
But you can select the Bb in the clarinet (in the source or target staff) and set the accidental scale to 100%, and then hide the accidental on the Bb eighth note in the target staff. Now only the (full size) accidental from the cue displays there.
How did you get your first example? I’ve tried to follow what you wrote, but in every case any setting moves both the note and the cue. I’m missing something…
- Starting point
- Change voice column index of cue
- Set Cl accidental scale to 100%
- Hide accidental on target Bb
- Reposition first note of cue (voice column spacing offset)
This does impact the source Cl staff a little and winds up making the space between the first 2 sixteenths slightly tighter than the default. You can work around this by moving the first note of the cue slightly back to the right, so that the source spacing looks right, and then also moving the eighth note a little to the right (using voice column X offset). This preserves the spacing in the source measure, but it puts the first note of the target measure a little farther away from the opening barline.
Someone else may have a better solution.
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Working through the steps, it doesn’t seem like that should work, but danged if it does! How you figured it out is a mystery. I had to turn off condensing to get anything to move properly, but after turning it back on, the changes stuck.
Thanks!
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