Is there a way to hide gradual tempo changes in parts only? Tempo marks and metronome marks can be hidden but I see no such option in the properties panel for gradual tempo changes. Am I missing something here or is there some other way to do this?
Thank you. That solved it. Did not find this solution with either google or chatgpt so I guess this is some form of work around? Strange considering itās quite a normal feature.
Yes, I guess itās a workaround. Can be used for many things.
Jesper
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Setting the custom scale to 1 is an alternative.
Jesper
The fact that you couldnāt find this with AI does not mean that the solution has to be a workaround by definition (though it is in this case). The best way to get reliable results for something you canāt find in the help files is to search this forum (simply type the title of your topic in the search bar and see the number of results). There are also numerous posts about how people got sent down a rabbit hole when trying to achieve something in Dorico, just because ChatGPT told them some nonsense.
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Is it? Most standards are for all tempo indications to be shown in parts, so players know whatās going on.
If this is a solo cadenza with only one instrument following the accel/rit, then you could just put the tempo marks in with no text property (so they are hidden, but still playback), and then just add the words as as text on that staff?
I totally agree, but Iāve had a use case for local hidden tempo indications. A previous project (in Finale) was a piece that had particularly long tempo markings. Think Poco meno mosso e piĆ¹ sostenuto (h=100) or (I kid you not) Poco meno mosso, ma sempre con moto ed espressione (q=72). Because horizontal space in most of the parts was limited, I had to add line breaks in a lot of those markings in the parts. To do so I hid the actual tempo markings in the parts (which you can do in Finale) and replaced them with what would be a text item in Dorico. I can imagine the ability to add local line breaks in parts could be useful even with less extreme tempo indications.
Sorry but adding hidden tempo marks and then adding texts on a specific staff sounds dangerously close to a work around as well. But I guess this is how you have to do it.
Thanks for the suggestion and at least I have a couple of alternative solutions.
And yes, itās a solo cadenza.
I normally donāt use AI for anything but this was actually a tip from the head editor at my publisher who I just had contact with concerning other matters. And I did search this very forum about this before asking but the only post I could find was 5 years old and I didnāt know if this was still relevant.
Also I told my publisher that this was the best place to ask any questions regarding Dorico since people here are really friendly and helpful. So I hope itās ok that I ask these questions.
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Thereās nothing wrong with a work-around. Programs make such capabilities available since it would would be an unreasonable burden to ask programmers to provide for every eventuality automatically, especially in a medium as personal as musical expressionāand creative musicians take advantage of them to communicate their ideas more clearly.
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I have no problems with work arounds. Iāve been using them in Finale for almost 30 years. Itās just that they are sometimes a bit harder to find.
Yes, Finale depended on work-arounds. It was a crucial part of the program and allowed many ways to customize presentation.
What is a work-around, other than āsomething that takes more steps than I would likeāā¦? 
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Haha. True!