I’m experiencing a weird Engraving issue with Guitar Techniques (specifically Hammer-ons and Pull-offs). In the Dorico manual and the other forum posts here, I see that Dorico uses the typical format of H or P over a slur between the two notes that these techniques apply to. However, when I input (through popover and properties panel), all I get is an H/P over the selected notes. No slur. I could add my own slur, but I’d like to automatically have the H/Ps centered between the notes, as is standard. Any hidden settings I’m missing? Or is this something that I just need to solve in Engrave mode? I already combed through the Guitar Techniques settings in Engraving Options. This also happens in all of my projects, not just my current project.
I’m a new user, and can’t include more than one photo or link. What I’m trying to achieve can be found in the Dorico Pro manual under Hammer-ons and Pull-offs.
Welcome to the forum, @cma110. Could the issue be that you’re not selecting multiple notes before you create the hammer-on or pull-off via the Shift+O popover? If you have multiple notes selected, Dorico will create the slur and centre the H or P over the slur.
After a bit of troubleshooting, I think I figured out the problem. The hammeron/pulloff popover does indeed work as intended when going from one single note to another single note. But when adding the technique to two stacked notes, it adds two Hs or Ps over the second dyad (picture below). Is it possible it is only able to recognize when it is single-note passages?
For the above, a few methods ended with the same result. I wrote in the two top notes and the pull-off formatted correctly, but adding the bottom notes resulted in the technique being doubled. (Turning off the technique in the properties menu for one set of notes then leaves me with a P over the second dyad without a slur.)
Yes, Dorico probably should be cleverer here. I think if you’re careful to only select a single note in each chord (e.g. using Ctrl+click on Windows or Command-click on macOS), you’ll get the result you want.
