Hello,
I would like to request support for vertically stacked dynamic qualifiers such as “sub.” and “poco”.
I ran into this while reading Toru Takemitsu’s Air for solo flute. In that score, these qualifiers can appear stacked vertically rather than laid out in a single horizontal line, and I would very much like to be able to reproduce that more faithfully in Dorico.
At the moment, as far as I can tell, the only real workaround is to use separate text items and position them manually. That is manageable for a one-off case, but in practice it is quite awkward: the items are no longer part of one dynamic object, they need more manual adjustment, and the layout can easily become unstable if anything in the passage changes.
What I would find very helpful is a way to keep such text attached to the dynamic or hairpin semantically, while allowing the qualifiers themselves to be stacked vertically when needed — for example, “sub.” above and “poco” below.
I think this would be useful not only for this particular example, but more generally for modern and contemporary repertoire where dynamic text is sometimes laid out in a more spatial way.
At present this is possible only by approximating the appearance with workarounds, whereas it would be much better if Dorico could support it directly.
Many thanks for considering it.