I was wondering if there are any plans to add ties to 2nd ending? In all versions of Finale including Print Music, you can tie forward and backward in 2nd endings with no restrictions. I know that a work-around in Dorico is Engrave Mode. However, that feature is not available in Dorico 6 SE. And a simple keystroke would make it even better.
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Yes, it’s definitely been mentioned before, and it’s on the list of things that the developers plan to add.
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To obtain a tie into the second ending using Dorico SE, you could enter a whole grace note at the start of that ending as shown in the first measure below. Then select the grace note and tie it to the following note as shown in the second measure. Now set the Scale property of the grace note to Normal as shown in the third measure. Finally, activate the Color property of the grace note and change its Opacity on macOS or Alpha channel on Windows to zero to obtain the fourth measure:
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Thank you for the suggestion. I will give it a try.
Thank you John for the tip. The music I am notating is for choir with SAT. I tried it and it does work. But I did discover a couple of issues. 1) If you have to include accidentals with the following note, it has to be on the grace note as well in order to tie to the grace note and when you change the color of the grace note, it leaves a blank space between the accidental and the note. 2) If the main note is above or below the stave, the line that runs through the note remains after making the changes. I also noticed that after making the changes, I had to go back and redo the timing on the music from that point to the end of the song because for some reason, everything shifted to the right by 2 beats. But an easy copy and paste fixed that issue.
Again, thank you for helping me with my issue.
Hello John, I just wanted to give an update. After playing around with the grace note features, I found out that I can also hide the accidentals to fix the other issue I discovered. Again, thank you for the information.