I thought I’d ‘jump in’ on this thread because I too often experience unexpected jumping during a typical workday in Dorico.
I don’t believe my jumping issues are bugs, rather they are unwanted behaviors involving the ‘lock duration’ tool and the ‘lyric’ tool. I know these jumping concepts have been discussed a lot on this list and I understand both sides of the argument. Last November, as a new user, I hadn’t yet formed an opinion on the matter, but now, after working in Dorico every day for a year now, I finally feel qualified to voice an opinion on this.
Here’s an example of an unwanted jump using the ‘lock’ feature. Today I’m orchestrating a musical theatre work, in which the composer has completely reworked the first 100 bars or so. Everything after bar 100 is unchanged. So I clear the first 100 bars of the flow and begin to update the piece. However, when working in this new opening section, if I use the lock duration tool (which I often do) and reach the end of a phrase, I am instantly transported many bars into the future. At which point I have scroll back to where I was. Simply having a preferences that temporarily limits this kind of jumping when using the’ lock duration tool’ would be very helpful to me.
Same goes for lyrics (again using this musical theatre composition as an example) when I reach the end of a lyrical phrase, I am jettisoned 100 bars into the future to the next lyric. This might be practical in some situations, but not mine, ever. This same jumping behavior effects extension lines at the ends of lyrics as well, which must be deleted and re-entered to fix. Perhaps the lyric tool should force the user to enter ‘two’ spacebars before it jumps over an empty bar rest??? That works for me. At the very least, I would also think the lyric tool could eventually be taught not to ‘extend a lyric line over an empty bar rest’ too. I experience many of these kinds of unwanted forward jumps during a typical workday. Usually I don’t bother to take the time to analyze why they occur, – rather, I’m just suddenly far away from the area where I was working. I’d love to have some more control with these two particular tools in a future update. Thanks.