You are assuming, of course, that if they were having troubles, they’ve have told you about it—or that if it were so, these companies would be publishing press releases letting everyone know.
This is similar to “consensus bias” in cognitive science, where we assume others agree with us more than they do, because we think that we’d know somehow if they didn’t.
I find it very unrealistic to expect that the woes of the end user are well-documented. Most programmers would rather not hear it, since their programs already make sense to them, and the sales/media departments would rather quash that conversation. And most project managers are in a rush to get to market. And once the money’s in hand, why spend an hour fixing what’s already bought-and-paid-for?
I guess lots of people would assume this about lots of software.
Having been a frequent visitor of the forum for a few years now, witnessing and reading daily posts from @Lillie_Harris (who writes the user manual) and @dspreadbury (who is the product manager), who have both replied to you too, I can unequivocally say that this is not true.
Sorry, I don’t buy the claim “Everybody that has ever designed a major music notation program has gotten it wrong.” You may not like music notation software— if so, that’s fair. But I don’t believe you can so easily dismiss the cumulative expertise and care of these four teams over many decades.
No, that really isn’t what I mean or what Ben meant or what the article in the documentation states.
The Preferences dialog is the dialog that controls the way that a particular application behaves in general. On Mac programs (aka apps or applications) the program has a clickable menu - in this case the “Dorico” menu - and typically this is where you’ll find the Preferences dialog. On Windows programs this same dialog has to be stored somewhere else, as the program doesn’t typically have a specific menu.
Until you tell us what operating system you use, we can’t be more specific about where to find this particular dialog. This isn’t the fault of Dorico’s developers; it’s a difference in the way that Apple and Microsoft like menus to be organised.
The preferences for the application. This is not a Dorico term. Nearly every application has a dialog of preferences. On macOS, this is under the application menu.
On Windows:
The preferred term here seems to be “settings”, though “options”, “preferences” and even “parameters” are fairly obvious synonyms.
