I am using the new Coordination Lines feature (in a regular score not a cutaway score) in a free passage to visually mark some parts that different instruments need to align. I noticed, turning on the Erase Background property for musical elements such as dynamics, does not work with these new coordination lines. Notice the coordination behind the mp molto express. marking. Even though the Erase Background property of the dynamic marking is on, the coordination line still appears behind it and seems colliding.
I think it’s caused by the fact that the coordination line is on top of the dynamic rather than behind it. No idea if this can be changed though.
OT: out of curiosity, why are you using a coordination line in this situation? Wouldn’t the need for a line (if any) be eliminated by breaking those beams to make the rhythm clearer? Not judging, just curious.
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Yes, you’re absolutely right: coordination lines should be drawn behind other items, but that currently isn’t the case. I’ll make sure this gets taken care of.
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I am using coordination lines here to indicate critical moments players need to align, since this is a long free, meter-less passage in an otherwise metered piece.
But you are right about the beaming, if I break those beams, it will help with legibility. Dorico does not do it automatically since there is no time signature here so I have to do it manually.
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Hi Daniel, currently running into a situation where erasing the coordination lines as they pass through the staff, techniques, and notes, would be useful. Any ETA on this feature, and if it’ll allow the staff itself to erase the line? Thanks.
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You can perhaps instead use multiple coordination lines at the same position, joining different staves, instead of a single one that passes through all the staves?
Yes, that does indeed work, and is what I’m doing right now. The only 2 issues with this approach are of course that it is much more time intensive (the score I’m re-engraving right now is 10 pages with up to 16 coordination lines between 5 staves, so up to 64 coordination lines(!) on a page of music when doing separately), and the fact that it’s very hard to optically have consistency in spacing in the gap between each staff and the start of the line. This is very much a personal preference thing, where I’d like to have a small gap before each line starts, and the consistency for me is a matter of having a very polished appearance. I’m not expecting either of these probably idiosyncratic needs to move the development path of Dorico, but I thought I’d mention them in case you happen to agree with the need for either. In any case, thanks Daniel!
I believe this is now fixed in one of the Dorico 6.X releases! Thank you!