I have created such shapes, e.g. a circle, as glyphs in the playing techniques. Unfortunately, the border of the shape is much too thick. I would also like to have colours, e.g. red. When inserting, the shape unfortunately always jumps above or below the notes. You then have to switch back to Engrave mode and move the shape manually.
Here’s another approach. With circled noteheads, here called Larger Noteheads Circled. Might be you can find a nicer circle. I took a glyph from the electronic music pictograms category. You can use an SVG image. So just right-click→Notehead→Larger Noteheads Circled.
I would like to use Dorico iPad instead of printed sheet music or PDF sheet music and circle certain passages (more than one note) while playing. This way, I can correct notes directly in the Dorico file while playing and insert fingerings and pedaling, similar to how it works in Forscore.
If you look at Library→Notehead sets→Larger noteheads circled you get this dialog. Double-click a notehead and you get the next dialog. I added a circle from electronic music pictograms, but you can add a graphic also. You see there is a color option, and you can scale the size. Not much to do about the ledger lines I think.
Hey, I‘m not sure what you are trying to achieve with these annotations, but maybe comments may be useful for some of these things?
Besides that I think this is free graphical editing of the document, which is not what Dorico was designed for and how it works: Imagine you change the content or layout underneath these annotations - how should they respond to that? Dorico does not know what your annotations mean, so it can’t, but this is what is trying to do mostly.
I agree with some of the other posters that annotating a PDF export with a stylus may be the best way to do what you want (there are shapes available for annotations as well), but not in Dorico itself (for the reason above).
Hello Waldbear,
I would be happy to explain the purpose of such markings in Dorico.
The comment function is often helpful when working at a desk with a computer keyboard, which is a great feature, by the way. However, when you are sitting at an instrument (e.g. organ with pedal) and want to play from Dorico and compose/correct with Dorico, the comment function is only of limited use. In this case, using a pen and the corresponding marking functions would be a great help in marking target notes (underlining and arrows) to highlight dissonances, but also to be able to continue working on the document immediately (after playing). Especially in a school context, when teachers and students are working on a document (you cannot play music in a PDF Apps), but also when several people are working on one document (composer and orchestrator), the comment function is often insufficient or has to be laboriously rewritten in the comment function, which could be easily represented with a marking. A simple marking often presents all marks more clearly at a glance, as I don’t have to click on each individual comment before I can see the content.
Can you imagine the working methods and use cases a little better now?
Hello Jesele, thank you for the great idea with the note heads. Even though you can’t mark lyrics this way and can only mark one note at a time, this workaround is helpful.
Perhaps the bug with the ledger lines will be fixed.
Very nice. Now if only you could circle the lyrics and fingerings…
Although fingerings can be circled using the decoration feature, unfortunately this cannot be done in colour and unfortunately there is no keyboard shortcut for this…
