How to hide all ledger lines in Dorico Pro

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Finale user for years, now on Dorico Pro. How can I hide all ledger lines in a piece? Is there a selection I can make globally?

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Select everything, filter for notes, deselect all possible tuplets, go to engrave mode, go to the properties panel and activate „hide ledger lines“

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Welcome to the forum @xylodork.

If you filter all notes, go to Engrave mode, open the Properties panel in the Lower Zone, there should be a switch to hide ledger lines?

Does this work?

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I think this will work for small selections, but not for large selections. Not sure why.

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Maybe because of the possible tuplets selected?

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I’m not at my computer right now but is the switch still available on notes that don’t use ledger lines? I.E. would we need a “filter notes with ledger lines”?

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It’s surely because tuplets are selected as well. You need to deselect those.

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I am 95% sure it exists. I often hide ledger lines of notes, and sometimes change their pitch and the property is always retained, even if they temporarily do not have ledger lines.

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When I tried it (select all, filter for notes) on a selection of 99 bars of solo instrument and piano, the properties disappeared until I deselected all grace notes. I was then able to use “Hide ledger lines”. It did take a few seconds to do the whole selection, probably because in Engrave mode you would normally only select and work on one item at a time or maybe only a few, not hundreds.

Edit:
When I added some tuplets, the same thing occured until I deselected the tuplet markings - not the tuplet notes, just the number and bracket.

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I am brand new to Dorico, like just started it today. Best I can tell so far as I struggle through this transition from Finale, I can only “hide ledger lines” in Engrave mode/lower properties panel/note and rests/hide ledger lines. I have done this by selecting the individual note heads, and then hiding them accordingly.

However, I would like all notes in this file (piece) that have ledger lines to have those lines hidden.

I can select individual note heads and then hide those ledger lines. But that would be tedious and annoying. If you know of a way to have all ledger lines in a piece to be hidden (without selection note by note) that sure would be helpful. Like a global setting for any particular file maybe.

I must think there is a way to do this. Right?

Thanks for your kind help.
Best,
David M.

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You need to Filter the notes/un-filter graces notes… etc in Write mode. Once only the notes are all selected then you go to Engrave mode…

Sorry for any confusion.

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Also deselect tuplet numbers/brackets.

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Hi @xylodork , in the other posts you have received your answer.

The concept behind this is that Dorico Properties panel is adapting to the item/s currently selected, in other words it shows only the properties that you can change for the item/s currently selected. If you have different kinds of items selected, then dorico shows only the Common properties (on the left of the panel). Grace notes, so as tuples symbols, and other items (like “normal” notes), have separate/different properties . So you need to tell Dorico for which item you want to change the properties, using the filter function strategically.

Here the Manual with more detailed explanation:

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Outstanding! That did it. As directed by you Dorico wizards, in WRITE mode, I selected all notes, then deselected all grace notes, and deselected all tuplets, then was able to go to ENGRAVE mode, and hide all ledger lines in the lower properties panel/notes and rests.
Thanks for all your kind help and guidance.
Best,
D

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Now though, I have another puzzle. I shall start a new topic, but it has to do with a Finale file that utilizes multiple layers. Not all layers are coming into the Dorico import using XML. I will compose another post about this headache. Thanks again.

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Make sure to attach your files.

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I can’t seem to attach a Finale file to these posts. I am trying, but specific Finale v.27 files are not available to post in this forum. Am I missing something here, or doing something wrong?

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Zip them

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zip the file and you will be able to upload.

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For my education, what do the notes without leger lines indicate?
Unspecified high or low pitch?