Hey all at Dorico -
Fantastic job so far - really enjoy the concepts behind the program, and realise that there are still some things to iron out. It fulfills well the need for a professional engravement system, and acknowledges well the compositional process.
Features that would be useful to me in future versions:
Write mode:
- a hotkey that reveals key bindings graphically (i.e. hold down shift and a little “M” appears beside the meter button for e.g.)
- More of these keystrokes evident in hovering over - Tuplets for example doesn’t display “;”
- a niggle, but a way of choosing behaviour by default e.g. if I always want tuplets to go across bar lines (fantastic feature btw)
Play mode:
- A graphical representation of the score in an optional panel below (I don’t really use this feature though and am aware you can just hit space or P in write mode)
Engrave mode:
This I think needs the most work
- Templates - The current default template is a bit bare bones and not very nice as a layout. We could do with a designer spending some time presenting different layouts which the user could choose from
- An easy graphical way to insert placemarker text without having to type {@flowTitle@} for example (if that’s right?)
- As has been pointed out elsewhere, a way to allow more than one flow on one page, so I can include several short piano movements on one page for example
- The ability to just “delete” a page. At the moment Dorico creates an extra page so that all music is shown, but this shouldn’t be necessary - maybe take a leaf from Quark or InDesign and have a warning at the end of the frame showing that there is content not displayed.
- Ideally, this interface needs some clarification, and more options available graphically. Perhaps instead of having a fixed master page, have page templates that you can drag in?
- Some CSS style functionality would be appreciated here - an easy way to globally change appearances of fonts etc. away from editing the score directly (i.e. a styles panel)
Sorry - quite a wish list there, and probably more to come…
Best
Edd 