I again forgot how to delete the Insert Mode Stop Position red bar by dragging and consulted the manual. The following instructions took me several minutes to overcome, and purely by accident:
“Click the stop position top handle and drag it in any direction until the mouse pointer is outside the music, then release the mouse.”
So simple once you know that “outside the music” means “off the page”. For me the music is not the page; it’s the notation on the page. So you try to drag the top of the thing all over the page, nothing is happening and you wonder whether you are dragging the wrong spot or a one of a myriad of other scenarios. Only if you accidentally move off the page does the thing do what it’s supposed to.
I would respectfully suggest that “off the page” replace “outside the music” for anyone (if there is anyone) for whom “outside the music” is not “off the page”.
Edit. Further experimentation shows that one can also drag it into the left or right margins and get the required result but not the top margin, so it is more complicated than I thought. I will continue to experiment to see exactly where one can drag the thing.
Interesting, I was never even aware of that method until now. I find it a little clunky, I prefer just simply using this red icon at the top of the system track:
I also started to use the stop bar so frequently when editing a complex measure that I have added the following as a key command, which can toggle the bar on/off like a switch:
Haha, to each their own! On my screen I often forget it’s there (preferring the shortcut). Only reason I found the mouse method clunky is trying it a few times it seemed to have a 50% success rate for me, which after trying it again I realized has to do with the zoom level (I’m almost always working inside galley view zoomed way in, perhaps why the system track is also out of view!). In this case sometimes when you drag the bar “outside the music” nothing seems to happen. But then if zoomed fully out so the colored area outside the score is visible, then it works. Interesting - makes me even happier to use my keyboard shortcut so I don’t have to zoom out or scroll up
Everyone has their own style. I rarely use the Stop Position bar and have used both ways to get rid of it. I turn the system track and the signposts on and off constantly with commands and can only work in page view (same in Finale). Still trying to come up with an efficient way to use Dorico, but getting a little closer, I think.
Interesting. I work 90% in Galley View. Then Engrave/Write (page view) for final layout.
(Never came to terms using Finale. Too many years with Sibelius)
I see no reason to use the system bar at all. For me it is pretty much redundant.
It’s a matter of approach. There have been Finale threads about it. Many engravers can’t understand working in page view and others (like me) can’t work in “scroll view” (=galley view).
One of the best aspects of Dorico as a software is how well it caters to the many different workflows, tastes, opinions, and vagaries of musicians - a group who can never seem to agree on anything
