Dorico iPad with Apple Pencil

We don’t have any plans to support input via handwriting with the Apple Pencil, but we are certainly interested in making more use of the Apple Pencil throughout Dorico for iPad in general. However, we really need to move up to the latest version of the Qt framework upon which Dorico is built, so that we can take advantage of some API changes that provide a more unified way of handling inputs, whether they come from a mouse, trackpad, finger, or Pencil. This isn’t a small change, and it has impacts on the whole of the software, so it’s something that will hopefully happen in the timescale of the next major version of Dorico, rather than the next minor (but by no means insignificant) update.

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