For a cascading effect I’ve used a graphic symbol which harpists have always understood and interpreted as intended without question. This was easy to create as an expression in Finale but I’m having a hard time finding a way to do something similar in Dorico. Doesn’t need to activate correct playback necessarily , just attach to a note.
Maybe you could create it as a playing technique, using your existing graphic?
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Good suggestion, thanks. I tried this but there’s no way to export that graphic without the blank space around it , which Dorico imports as a blank box. I guess what’s really required is the means to draw a graphic shape in the Edit Playing Technique window, or at least somewhere within the Dorico environment that could then be chosen or “select existing”.. maybe there is a way to get around that, I’m just not seeing it.
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YES, many thanks! How did you do that? It would be nice to contract/ resize that item for specific instances as in Finale, tho each time it’s a manual adjustment (so it was in the day..), but this is a great solution. Adjusting the xy co ordinates seems to work globally. This has saved my deadline 
I made it in Canvas Affinity, which is free. Then exported an SVG. It was rather big, so I scaled it to 15% in the playing technique editor. You could use a graphic frame that can be scaled, instead of a playing technique, but that has other limitations. Here’s the SVG. You can import it and create more than one playing technique with different sizes, but you can’t scale the x and y separately.
Jesper
hrp.svg.zip (1.0 KB)
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Not OP obviously but I’m interested in doing some fancy/complex line stuff coming up in a similar wheelhouse. I’m wondering, could this graphic import method work in the line tool instead of a playing technique?
Not really the way you hope, I think. Then you have to split the line into segments and add each segment to repeatable symbols. Then use those in the line editor, just like wiggly lines. The problem with SVG:s is to get them to line up properly. Actually, creating a font with line segment glyphs works better. I just did a hairpin line in segments. A few from Fontlab.
Jesper
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Thanks again Jesper, I made a couple more of these in Affinity, different shapes and sizes. Imports fine into Dorico.
Mike
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