Feature request: custom signposts

Dorico
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Hi there,

I would love to have the ability to create custom signposts with individual color codings. This way I could streamline score analyzation into different categories with the ability to show or hide them individually (rhythms, type of voicing, voice leading, ground motives, ostinatos, counterpoints etc.)

Nice holidays everybody!

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We’re not likely to make it possible for you to create your own arbitrary signposts in the score. I would suggest you investigate Dorico’s comments feature.

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@dspreadbury: Thanks for the info.

The comments are a bit limited for my purpose. I will do it with PDF tools then.

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You might try adding your “signposts” as a text. You could create different paragraph styles which could include box frames and use different colors as well.

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This is exactly what I do, and it’s really handy. My initial drafts as I compose are all highly annotated with analytical symbols and text that I want to see right in the music. Later I copy those flows and delete the staff- and system-attached annotations.

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I hadn’t thought about – or realized – the need to hide the texts but I guess that it might be easy enough to change the color(s) to white to accomplish “hiding” them. It makes it easy enough to bring them back rather than deleting them!

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In my case, I like to have the annotated copies in my permanent collection, as a reference of what I was “up to” in the piece. So duplicating the flows and working on the “clean” copies when I start polishing things visually in Engrave Mode works. (Also, my annotations themselves include a variety of colors which bear meaning.)

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Nice advice @jaskarbong and @judddanby.

I realized just now that I can add a key command for creating text with a specific paragraph style. So I can set up paragraph styles with default text and individual background colors for every analytical category, add a key command for each and then I can make them stick to my written music like nothing.

When I also find a solution for hiding text boxes with a specific paragraph style (or changing to a non visible paragraph style) nothing can stop me anymore :wink:

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Hi @sebastring, there is indeed a nice functionality to obtain this :slight_smile: :

if you created your different groups of annotations (with Staff-attached text for example) using different Paragraph Styles groups , you can use the Select More command on one annotation that has one specific Paragraph Style, and the select more command will only select the other annotations that has the same Paragraph Style, so you can select them quickly and hide them (or unhide, as the select more will also work on the signposts of text that has the same Paragraph Style).

Here a video that shows this very handy functionality of Select More command:

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As if Christmas is around the corner :clap:
It works! Thank you!!!

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