FR: Finding and removing unnecessary Forced Durations

[Mats_Frendahl]

I receive Dorico scores where the author sometimes has activated Forced Duration where it is not needed, e.g.

If I select the entire score, I can check if ‘FD’ is active. Then, I can go through each system to see where it is, and for each system, check each bar and then each note. This is tedious. Is there a better way to remove ‘unnecessary FD’?

As a feature request, I suggest a ‘Forced Duration’ signpost so they can be easily found.

And while at it, a ‘Forced beaming’ signpost as well.

Both would be most helpful when doing ‘QA’ on received scores before publication.

[benwiggy]

Select the entire Flow, and press O to remove FD.

[Mats_Frendahl]

But that removes the needed ones as well?

[benwiggy]

So you want Dorico to compare every bar to the currently selected Notation Options, and then make a decision about whether to remove FD or not…?

[Mats_Frendahl]

I want Dorico to show me what is manually marked just as Dorico shows me when an accidental is forced.

How do you remove the FD on C but keep the other FD (yes, stupid music example, but an example).

The text equivalent would like an editor receives a Word document with

Where do you find the hard space? At least Word can show the “codes”

But even that is tedious. Luckily you can search for such things in Word. A search function in Dorico would be most welcome. Is there no public demand for that?

[benwiggy]

@Mats_Frendahl

just as Dorico shows me when an accidental is forced.

So you just want Dorico to show FD in a different colour?

[Mats_Frendahl]

That would be perfect, yes, and the Forced Beaming. See my updated post above.

Another option would be a new pane with “Signpost” or “Forced markup”, e.g.

Here I have marked the places with comments.

This would be most helpful to find all such places, this goes for

forced beaming
forced accidentals
‘contradictory’ accidentals

as well.

[Estigy]

This would be a really nice addition to Dorico.
When helping other users, time and again they have activated FD at one place, then copied the note to somewhere else, and then wonder why the note there will behave strangely - not being aware that the source of the copied note had FD on.