New Dorico user coming over from Finale and am optimistic about the switch so far…
I have a two-part question with regard to rehearsal markings.
Is it possible to create a triangular-shaped enclosure with a downward arrow to indicate cues for non-metered aleatoric sections? (See attached photo.)
Is it possible to specify a duration (in terms of seconds) for playback of a measure/region as opposed to a metronome marking?
Thanks for any help you can provide!
There’s no good way to customise rehearsal marks in this way, Carl. We would need to implement special support for it.
It’s also not possible at the moment to specify an elapsed time for a region rather than a tempo. I can imagine a way of doing this as a new kind of tempo item that describes a region and then calculates the effective tempo value required to make that region last for a particular period of time, but I’m afraid no such feature exists at the moment.
Could be useful for sure.
Jesper
Thanks for the reply. With regard to the tempo, I had to make a workaround in Finale as well, where I assigned a tempo and to each measure to approximate the duration needed, and then hid the tempo so it did not appear in the score.
With regard to rehearsal markings, a drop-down menu with various shape options (circle, square, triangle, rectangle, octagon, etc.) would be a welcome addition.
Greeting, @Carl_Collins, and welcome to the wide world of Dorico!
This is quite a workaround, I realize, but there’s a great font called Encercle Sans by Typodermic Fonts (available at Notation Central) that might help in your work.
I happen to use all sorts of personal analytical symbols in my notes and sketches in which alphanumerics are enclosed in geometric shapes. You could at least get the “downward-pointing” triangles to wrap around Staff- or System-attached Text, though you wouldn’t have the actual pointing arrows.
Looks like this:
@judddanby thanks for that lead. That looks like a promising option. The other alternative I’ve considered, but haven’t gone far enough down the rabbit hole to see if it’s possible, is to create an independent graphic and then import it as a System-attached text or object.
There are many sages and gurus here in the forum who know where the rabbit holes lie and have ventured with Alice…
