We like to put melody line notes up with our songs on the screens at our church. I’ve been arranging those (PNGs) via Finale for a bunch of years now. Some suggestions to facilitate this in Dorico:
Allow user to specific “page size” in points or pixels (ie, screen size).
Allow all elements to be a different color than black. White pops more from generally darker backgrounds used in our worship settings. I have to use a different program to invert everything exported as black to white to achieve this. Would be nice if Dorico could export the finished product (all white with transparent background) in PNG format. While I’m at it, there’s something weird about how Dorico exports color profiles. Mac Preview (what I usually use to invert colors to white) can’t pick up the color information from Dorico’s PNG exports - another problem.
Once again, allow users to specify individual staff indent units manually by numeric unit entry, not just by counting nudges tediously.
Allow universal beam thickness adjustment. I generally very slightly thicken the staff lines, barlines, stems, and beams to make them easier to discern from distance on the screen. I know this can by done with extra steps in Engrave mode, but a quick universal setting somewhere would be awesome.
Allow staves to maintain inter-staff distancing, but center the grouping vertically on the “page” (meaning, whichever systems I specify to be in each page/frame via frame breaks, keep those distanced from each other as I’ve specified without stretching, but center that group of systems vertically on the page/frame).
Thanks,
Joey
