Forcing duration line?

[davidmglasgow]

Hi! Brand-new Finale refugee here, so please be kind if I’m missing something obvious.

I’m working through the Udemy “Dorico: Complete Music Notation Course.” The course has been super helpful, even though it was created using Dorico 4 so there are a few outdated bits.

In Lesson 9, I’ve (successfully) created and used an “am Steg” playing technique with a dashed duration line—in every place except one. For some reason Dorico isn’t giving me duration line options for the one occurrence that’s attached to a long tied note. I tried also connecting the marking to the rest following the note, but Dorico still seems to think this particular occurrence has no duration:

Is this behaving differently because I’m using Dorico Version 5.1.70.2200 (Nov 18 2024)? Is there a way to force that line to appear?

Thanks in advance!

[benwiggy]

What happens if you just try to lengthen the PT with Shift Option Right arrow?

Or just delete that one, select one of the others, and Option-click to copy it to the new location?

[Lillie_Harris]

It doesn’t have duration: you can see that the playing technique only has one attachment line, to its start position.

Playing techniques require duration in order to show a duration line.

Playing technique duration

[davidmglasgow]

Brilliant, @benwiggy ! Your first solution (Sh-Opt-🡆) worked like a charm! Thanks for the super-fast, super-helpful response!

[judddanby]

@Lillie_Harris

It doesn’t have duration: you can see that the playing technique only has one attachment line, to its start position.

Playing techniques require duration in order to show a duration line.

Just to clarify, @Lillie_Harris: it’s assigned duration when applied to a succession of different notes, but not a single held note, correct?