I was wondering if I could look at the engrave mode page without the frames and the percentage.
I found the “hiding non-printing elements” page.
It says
for macintosh.
(I actually can’t put the sign in this message without having it messing up the text format…, I’ll have it here as an image)
for me it’s a little strange because
isn’t a letter, it’s like trema ¨, you attach it to a letter.
So I try
but it doesn’t do anything.
Then I try shift-
that is £ and that hides the frames and percentages.
But it hide it permanently.
And I can’t toggle it back.
I go to write mode and then back to engrave and the frames etc are back.
Thinking that it is perhaps would be good to have a normal key command I go into preferences and key commands and look up hide invisibles.
the key command says `. strange because it was £ that worked for me.
I take this screendump, then do remove key commande and put the £ shortcut. I didn’t notice but it didn’t showed “£”, it showed nothing but I pressed add key command.
Hm, now the £ does not work, it’s not hiding the frames etc.
Ok I redo.
But if you look at the image, now the shortcut is selected, but the remove key command is greyed out - I actually can’t take it away.
I go into the .json file, find hide invisible
What I understand of the organisation here is that each key command ends with a comma, even if all the other commas have a clean line before them.
but this is what I delete in the file :
now I quit dorico and re-open it,
the `nor the £ hide the frames,
I go into key commands and hide invisible,
Now the shortcut is gone, good.
I’m thinking of putting it on %. I just wanted to check if it weren’t there I have “tenuto” ?.
I’m going into tenuto, but it’s empty…
strange…
I look into accent :
oh, it’s also empty.
In fact, all of my shortcuts are deleted.
So, my .json file manipulation must have broken the file structure.
So I go to jsonlint.com and it does is corrupt.
Ok… before I edited the json file I did do a copy. With the faulty “hide invisibles” key command.
I quit dorico and put that file.
Ok, everything is back, but not hide invisibles.
I go back to hide invisibles and can still not delete the faulty (£) shortcut.
But I can add another… ?
So I add %. And this works.
And it works as described: it hides the frames etc when I press % and when I release the key it comes back…
Then I remember that yesterday I did a compressed file of my json file and sent to Mark Larcher…
that file is a correct json file, before my “hide invisibles” manipulation…
So I quit dorico, put back the json file from yesterday and it’s as when I started this journey.
Now I go back to hide invisibles key command, and there it is, the `shortcut, and it is removable !
I do remove it.
Ha.
And now I could my % shortcut there…
And that works.
On the “Hiding non-printing elements” help page it also says :
but with no indication how to do that.
so there is a bug in the vicinity of the ` shortcut. at least with my setup.
and it’s a really bad idea having guys like me digging around directly in the json file.
joakim
Bonus info : I did hide it ‘permanently’ and then printed it.
But then it came out with the paper colour :
So we need to see the frames when we print to have the normal white… :
