As the words suggest, I want bars 1-4 to be played three times and bars 5-6 twice, because the last time through, I want to jump to the coda after the end of bar 4.
For the “Last time to coda” marker, I entered a “to coda” marker, set the custom text to “Last time to coda,” turned on “Suppress on passes,” and entered “1,2.” I expected that the “To coda” marker would be effective the third time through, so that playback would jump to the coda.
It doesn’t – it plays through to the end of bar 6 and then continues to the coda, after which it stops.
The repeat sign will give you the 2nd pass. If you select the DC, you will notice the attachment is actually in the next bar so it won’t be seen on the first pass but on the 2nd pass it will send it back for the 3rd pass where the To coda will be taken.
Ummm…OK, but the example I cited is reduced from what I’m really working on, and in that example, I want to play through 6 times, not 3. I guess I could make the repeat go 5 times and then change the text?
It’s a shame that when you insert “To Coda,” Dorico doesn’t automatically jump to the coda (assuming there is one) even though there’s no sign earlier in the flow.
Yes, you can just set the end repeat barline property to Play 5 Times, and set its Count location to Neither (so it will be hidden), and then keep the D.C. al Coda renamed as “Play 6 times”. Here the example by @Craig_F updated with this settings:
I need some enlightenment as a non English speaker: I hear this it’s a shame more and more used in forum talk. To me it always sounds insulting, but that might be me misunderstanding? Especially as in most cases it embarrasses the poster - they are normally pointing to a function in Dorico that actually exists. Wouldn’t it be more appropriate and conciliatory to politely ask “can someone please explain, how I can achieve…?”
As a native speaker of American English (born and raised in New York City, now living in New Jersey), I understand “It’s a shame” as a synonym for “It’s unfortunate.” No moral implication in either case.
If I did want to convey a moral implication, I might have said “It is shameful that…,” which, to me carries a completely different meaning. For that matter, now that I think of it, writing “It is a shame…” rather than the contraction “It’s a shame…” would look to me like a mild criticism. But at least to me, “It’s a shame…” is just another way of saying “It’s bad luck…”
And come to think of it, referring to something as “bad luck” doesn’t carry any moral weight either despite the use of the word “bad.”
ditto; often (but not always) with the undertone of “I wish it were the other way”.
As others have said, context is key. It can range from a genuine serious expression, (often indicated by saying, “its a real shame that…”) to a light-hearted, almost throw away humorous phrase “well, that’s a shame!”. And many things in-between.
It seems to me that if a flow contains “To coda” and also contains a coda, then the “To coda” should jump to the coda regardless of what other repeat markers might be present. Is there a way to request that behavior for the future?
The suggested workaround seems fairly straightforward, but it implies that if later I want to change the number of repeats, I have to insert numbers that are intentially off by one, and, more importantly, I have to remember why I did so.
If I may delve a tiny bit further into oddities of English usage: I have a Swedish friend who studies English minutiæ as a hobby. He once asked me the difference between “electric” and “electrical.” After quite a bit of discussion, online searching, etc., we came to the conclusion that not only did I not know for sure, but neither did anyone else. Why, for example, is an electrical outlet the same as an electric outlet, but people will look at you weirdly if you try to talk about an electrical eel?
It is, properly speaking, an “electrical outlet” but people will colloquially shorten it to “electric outlet”, although it is grammatically incorrect.
That said, “electric” can be used as an adjective to describe something as filled with a lot of energy or very exciting, such as, “the atmosphere at the concert was positively electric!”. You would never say ‘the concert was electrical.’
Since we’re talking about linguistics here, I think the name of the Play n times property for the backward repeat is a bit unfortunate because Edit:deleted because I got things wrong
I think the name of the Play n times property for the backward repeat is a bit unfortunate because it refers to the number of times the backward repeat will be triggered and not the number of times the preceding bars have to be played