With some rough sketch sheets, I want to hide rests and keep rhythmic spaces equivalent to them.
I can hide, say, quarter rests and half rests by changing opacity to 0%, but dots of dotted rests remain black.
How can I hide dotted rests?
Try scaling the rest down to 1% size; that should scale both the rest and its dot.
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Wow, it works! Thanks Daniel.
After using workarounds to hide rests and notes (0% opacity, 1% scale), I’ve noticed some limits.
First, I can’t hide stems of notes in exported PDF.
Stems are invisible in Dorico’s window, but PDF shows short stems in grey.
Second, once I hide the elements, they are totally invisible in Dorico and it’s difficult to edit them afterwards.
I hope there would be more straightforward way to hide the elements in the future version…
Hiding elements.pdf (19.6 KB)
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Rather than trying to hide rests, try using notes of equivalent value (to maintain the spacing) and hide the stem and the notehead in Properties (those two attributes are only available in Properties when you are in Engrave mode).
No scaling is needed, and when a note has its notehead and stem hidden, they show up in Dorico as a very pale grey so it is possible to see them and edit them.
Also in Properties, you can suppress playback of selected notes so that they effectively become rests.
PS When you hide a dotted notehead, the dot hides as well.
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Thank you stevenjones01, I couldn’t find “Hide stem” and “Hide notehead” because they are on the far right side and hidden by the right zone (Page Templates, etc.).
I still hope very simple “Hide” option would be added in the future.
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There should be a scroll bar which you can drag across.
If you can’t scroll in the lower zone, here is an alternative method of scrolling to the right in Properties to view Hide stem and Hide notehead.
First make sure you are in Engrave mode.
Select the note(s) which you want to hide.
Open the lower zone.
Select one of the Properties which you can see (Offset or Accidental, for example), but don’t change any values.
Press Tab repeatedly (we’re talking about 20 to 30 times) until you see Hide stem and Hide notehead. They are the last two buttons in the Notes and Rests section, immediately before the Beaming section.
When pressing Tab, you will not see anything happening for a while, but the contents of the lower zone will move across as you keep pressing Tab.
I know this is an old post, but for those interested:
I highly recommend Keyboard Maestro (or any similar application) to create your own more complex shortcuts. I use KM all the time to control my own scripts in Dorico. With this you can do whatever you’d like with just a keystroke (opacity 0%, hide stems, avoid colission etc). As a composer using a lot of non-traditional notation, this is a real time saver and workflow helper for me.
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JMSmordal, thanks for information.
I also use Keyboard Maestro, but only for pretty simple tasks like starting an application, opening a folder, etc.
How can I use it for, say, applying opacity 0% or avoiding collision?
Of course, you can create your own scripts of a sequence of actions directly in Dorico; and access them in the Jump Bar with key shortcuts. (On MacOS, you can define keys for Dorico’s scripts, as they are menu items.)
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Thank you benwiggy, I’ve never used scripts with Dorico… As a matter of fact, I didn’t know there’s “Script” in its menu. (I cannot find “Script” or “Macro” in the index of Dorico user’s manual)
Thank you JMSmordal, for the first time I found and used “Select or Show a Menu Item” in Keyboard Maestro. Very useful indeed!
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