I understand dealing with dialogue in a musical is difficiult in Dorico. It’s giving me fits.
Here is my specific problem: I sometimes have non-rhythmic conversation sections in a song, with several speakers. If I place the dialogue with shift-X, where do I put it? I’ve tried putting one person’s words in his part, the other’s in her part, but they just don’t come out right when I go to print.
Is there a way to put the several lines of conversation in a box and have it appear in the appropriate place with any part? I hope what I am asking makes sense. I’m pretty new to Dorico, so maybe I’m just missing something obvious. (I HAVE looked through other posts.)
You are using System Text, which behaves like tempo marks in terms of where it displays. You want to use Staff Text, which attaches only to a single staff.
What am I missing? I have managed to create space for dialogue by writing fake whole notes, hiding them, and suppressing playback. I do this by each appropriate specific player, using shift/x to write the dialogue. I enter the dialogue ONLY for the players who need that specific dialogue to show. I do NOT enter it on the full score. This allows each player to print just fine. However, the printout for the whole score is not good, as the dialogue appears for each player. If I input the text as ALT SHIFT X to apply to all, the instruments get dialogue they don’t need. Help!
You said the text (dialogue) also showed in the score. If so, select each text item in the score and tick the Hide box in the properties (lower) panel, but make sure Set local properties is set to locally. By text, I mean your dialogue. You could select all in the score and Edit→Filter for text, and hide them all at once.
I’ve got local selected. I select the dialogue items I want to hide, go to the bottom and I get the option to suppress playback, but nothing about text.
Are you sure nothing else is selected also? There is a preference that is handy even if you select other things as well. Dorico→Preferences→Note Input and Editing→Show all properties.
I have not done the latest update but have Dorico 6.
Probably obvious, but I’m fairly new to Dorico. I was liking it until the difficulty of dealing with dialogue in a musical score. You seem to be pointing me in the right direction, but I must have fouled something up. I still have trouble navigating what different sections are called.
I’m about to just give up and write “dialogue” over sections when there is some. I just don’t seem to be able to figure this out. I think I need to go for a walk and clear my brain. Thanks for trying to help me, though. I’ve been very impressed by help given on the Forum.
ColoradoVCheri2a.dorico (2.8 MB) Everything prints fine except the full score. It’s the Ferry and Bob parts that mess things up. They look fine as individual parts. But the dialogue appears messed up on the full score.
(Guitar is irrelevant, as it’s just a “holding” space for the guitarist.)
