Sorry if this is the wrong space, but would like to see zones made floating or movable in upcoming versions of Dorico. Would be very helpful in order to work on a monitor in vertical mode, similat to the way many desktop publishing apps are designed.

Oh, some of us have mentioned this more than once. There is at least one other feature request thread with this mentioned. I agree 100%.

Hi @deenie , see this post: [image] Properties pane as a floating palette We don’t have any current plans to make it possible to “tear off” any of Dorico’s panels, though we are not in the business of ruling things out for all time (unless they’re ideas with absolutely no merit, which is certainl…

IMO Dorico would be more adaptable if intunitive the way we work with paper and pen(cil) So many thanks for the reply. some other suggestions.. let me choose the page view by default Currently, every file I have to View>Pages>Single Pages Vertically - please make it a global option. Pro user here.…

So, if we keep requesting this and we get other users to join in requesting the same, perhaps the dev team will realize that it is definitely something they need to address. As with most things, getting the features we want with Dorico that the dev team does not think necessary is really about bein…

you think annoying the devs is the best way to get features into the program? Interesting idea which I don’t agree with.

Personally, I’d much rather the dev team worked on adding essential notation features before additional ‘cosmetic’ options. Lute notation, drum notation, 2nd ending continuations, properties to hide and avoid collisions (or not) on more objects; stacking order of objects above the staff; augmentati…

I also like the idea of undocking panels and use them as separate windows. You can achieve an illusion of that by opening multiple instances of your project via Window->New Window. Then you can adjust your panels of choice to the right size to work with and then you can work with your new additiona…

Thanks to all for your recommendations, workflow tips and link to a previous post. Your replies have been very helpful. I thought this topic was likely raised in the past. Also, @benwiggy , I wasn’t aware there was the option to set the default view. I looked in Dorico->Preferences->General->View…

I did not say annoy. Being persistent is a far cry from desiring to annoy someone into submission. However, voices here are can be lost of they do not periodically state what they are finding that could simplify their work or even make it more pleasant. I don’t disagree that some essential notatio…

Well, I can’t know your intentions, but [image] kasky1: being a very, very, very squeaky wheel certainly would annoy me in the end. And while the forum is a good place to let the devs know about features wanted, as a forum user I would be annoyed if the same request would be repeated over a…

Floating/movable Zones - Feature Request

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Christian_R April 25, 2026, 8:49pm 3

Hi @deenie, see this post: