Cut and paste issue

Dorico
1

Hello
I attach a couple of screenshots from something I was seeing in a larger project…

The first shows what happens if I select all the notes in bar 1…
If I draw a rectangle around the bar contents using a mouse, I can copy and then paste that bar into bar 2 and everything works.

Because my (larger) score was a bit crowded, I clicked the first down stem note on its stem, held shift and clicked the last up stem note. Bar 1 looked the same. In fact the screen shot is the one I took when I selected the first and last notes.
But when I copy and paste, one (interior) note is missing.

I’m wondering if this is some sort of bug?

I’d appreciate any comments!
Derek

Dorico 1
Dorico 1877×305 31.9 KB

Dorico 2
Dorico 21581×317 53.4 KB

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There does seem to be a problem here, but (so far as I can see) it only happens with the Notation option set to overlap noteheads.

I usually select whole bars by clicking an empty bit of it. If I do that, then R I end up with this…

ol
ol391×102 3.85 KB

With the other Notation option set, I get this…
ol1

If I use the system track to do the selection both options work correctly.

3

Many thanks for your quick reply. I can work round it, but it’s good to know that it seems to be a genuine bug.

4

I think this has to do with the fact that Dorico can’t select what it can’t see. For some reason, when you click on the first note it does select both notes, but not the overlapped notes when you extend the selection. I think this restriction doesn’t apply to the System track.

6

Thank you. That makes some sense, except that drawing a rectangle with the mouse seems to pick up the “back” note.

I was arranging for 4 guitars, and I find the system track less useful in that case…

7

I was thinking also about trying the rectangle selection option, and it seems it works.
Of course the system track is not a good solution, I was just wondering why it would work in that case and not in the others. And I agree that this is not ideal behaviour. The note is not really “hidden”, is just amalgamated with another one.