Expression Maps: Can I Put My Custom EM's At The Top Of The List?

Dorico
#1

I’m finally beginning to experiment with custom Expression Maps for use with my VSL library in Dorico, and I’m running into a problem I hope can be overcome.

Working with EM’s, there is a LONG list of HSO EM’s that seemingly cannot be deleted. I have no interest in using (and therefore seeing) them. It would be fine if I could put my custom EM’s at the top of the list. And yet there appears to be no way to do this. I cannot drag or reorder them. And if try to use an alpha sort by prefixing a “_” to my EM name, it does no good.

Suggestions? Ideas? Comments?

#2

Aphabetized list? Rename yours A-

#3

That’s the problem. I tried renaming to “_VSL Strings Hi” and it still appeared at the bottom of the list.

#4

In the default character sorting sequence used by computers, the underscore character comes in between the upper case and lower case letters - i.e. it’s after “Z”, but before “a”. (Don’t ask why - it just does!)

Try using a hyphen instead of the underscore.

#5

Ah, got it. Capital A works fine. Thanks.

#6

Now if we can eventually get folders to organize our EM’s…

I imagine there is a reason we can’t delete the HSO EM’s. Folders would bring an additional benefit, letting me “hide” them.