Fermata improvement: Per staff hiding and brackets

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Hello,
I was lately creating a piano reduction from a score that was made in Sibelius. And I ran into two problems:

  • I needed to hide a fermata on one staff
  • I needed to put the fermata in brackets

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Although I found a workaround, I don’t think this is a proper way to use Dorico. So my requests to devs are:

Allow staff-independent fermata hiding
Can you add a hide option to each fermata symbol in Engrave mode - the fermata symbols in Engrave mode would be therefore stave independent.

Bracket option for fermatas
Can you add a bracket toggle for fermatas? In Write mode the toggle should influence fermatas across all the staves. In Engrave mode the toggle should influence only the selected fermata.

That’s for me now. Thank you for your amazing work :slightly_smiling_face:

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Since I cannot imagine how these bracketed fermatas would affect playback, I expect creating them as playing techniques without playback would be the optimal solution (whether instituted by users or by the Dorico Team). Of course finding a way to include the rest within the brackets would be the major challenge should users attempt it.

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Welcome to the forum! For now, one possible hack to “hide” a fermata on a staff is to drag it off the edge of the page in Engrave mode.

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I think the solution to the playback of the bracketed fermatas is simple - just play it as normal fermatas. You can alter the playback in Play mode to match your desires.

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Or you can remove the fermata of the beat and shift the other beats (my workaround that I figured).

The workarounds generally are pain in the a** when you need to edit the music or when you need to export it to MusicXML. And I think that the program shall be a servant of a composer and not vice versa.

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I foresee playback problems (for the computer at least) with different fermatas occurring at different times in different parts.

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Complications in playback–a secondary function–shouldn’t hinder features in notation software.

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I also need this improvement!

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I recommend exercising caution with this method, because all it takes is to change the page arrangement or a minor bit of casting off, for that dragged fermata to return to a page in an unexpected place.