Extending caret to multiple non-adjacent staves ?

Dorico
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Is there a way to benefit from caret extension but on non adjacent staves ?

For e.g. :

  • Write the same phrase on different instruments belonging to different systems (a wind, a brass and a string) or within a given system.
  • Exploding a chord into multiple staves belonging to different systems or within a given system but non adjacent.

This would prevent from overuse of copy-paste or layout creation.

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Welcome to the forum. Great idea!

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…but no, there isn’t.

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Thanks for the replies, so I did not miss it in the operation manual !

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One feature suggestion that has been made here is based on one of Finale’s more useful functions: staff sets. It would be very handy to be able to make a number of staff sets with different configurations in order to be able to do exactly what the OP was asking, among other things. I guess we can approach this by making layouts containing different staff configurations.

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Are Staff Visibility Changes heading in the right direction? I’m not familiar with the Finale approach…

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I would think temporary layouts would fill the role played by Finale’s Staff Sets.

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For what it’s worth, when I do coding in PyCharm or IntelliJ, I can create multiple carets by pressing Alt or Alt-Shift and left-clicking, and they all respond accordingly with keyboard commands. They can be moved by word using Ctrl+Left/Right, or moved to the beginning/end of a line with Home/End, even when they aren’t at the same vertical position. I hope similar functionality will be possible in Dorico someday!

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Yes, I mentioned using layouts to simulate that functionality. In the long run, using Finale’s staff sets is only marginally quicker, as keyboard shortcuts are assigned to them.

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There are (at least on my system) shortcuts to navigate through layouts (up and down). Quite useful actually.

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If your score involves writing identical musical lines to constantly changing groups of non-adjacent instruments, creating a new layout each time (even if quickly accessible through shortcuts) seems more like a workaround (especially if the layout is not used anywhere else) compared with a caret you could extend anywhere you want.

This could be done in the following manner with mouse (but we could also think of a keyboard only solution), as proposed by @JesterMusician :