I was on tour a couple of days and had my iPad with me. Decided to copy an old flute sonata/suite manuscript, written in french violin [g1] clef (that’s the usual [g2] violin clef positioned on the lowest staff line). I have no problem reading that clef and inputting the music (I have to input the music a third higher/everything sounds a third higher than the usual violin clef on the second line). Still for proofreading I would like to actually input the original [g1] clef into my score.
This clef seems to be stripped from the iPad Dorico version (and probably from Dorico SE and Elements on the desktop, too).
It is not in the right clef panel, nor does the Popover Shift-c, g1, Enter work.
I have not tried the Jump bar (does it trigger popover commands?).
But I came up with another idea: In one of my dorico projects I remember to have used the french violin clef. So imported that Flow into my iPad project (via the Jump Bar), stripped all the music and just left one bar containing the explicit [g1] clef. This little flow snippet would live as last flow in my project. I could copy/paste that clef to the prior flows - but also use that snippet as source for new flows in that project (there were 15 movements in total). Procedure “Duplicate Flow”.
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Yes, Dorico for iPad broadly follows the restrictions of Elements: and it looks like they only get the “Common” Clefs group. No “Uncommon” or “Archaic” clefs.
Even though you can’t create one, you can, as you found out, just copy one from an existing file. The same is true for any other restricted feature, like Tick or Short barlines.
Yes, and on the iPad, one can only have one project open. That’s why, to be able to copy/paste, one has to import a flow of the other project into an existing one.
And is it not possible to create another violin instrument using a G1 clef by default?
Hello Obiwan, this is the iPad version, where one can’t do these kind of things..
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