In the pictured example, despite searching the pdf manual and the web, I can’t get it to select just the tenuto. It always selects the notes and the tie too.
I need to the hide the tenuto.
Thanks!
P.S.
How do I get tenuto marks to show up on the last note in a set of tied notes, instead of the first?
First, you don’t need to select the first note of the tie; they are considered one note.
Second, I don’t think it’s possible to hide articulations. In Engrave mode, you may be able to drag it off the page.
In this case, I’m trying to extend the sound to play it’s full notated length.
In the piano roll view under “PLAY” section, the note is full length.
In the inspector, “Playback end offset” only sets it to either detache, or an overlapped/slur sound. It has no in-between, and I tried numbers from 1 to 200. (I dunno what unit those numbers represent, either, because it doesn’t say.)
I’m at a loss on how to adjust the playback length of a note in Dorico.
Try this:
You can now drag the note ending as long as you like but it will still be notated the same.
Does this help?
Thanks. I think you’ve done all you could.
Unfortunately, the problem appears to be a noteperformer quirk.
The note is full length in the key editor, but noteperformer plays it half length, no matter what. extending it past the previous note makes it jump to a slur sound. As I mentioned, there’s no in-between sound. There is either detache, or a slur sound.
The tenuto fixes that. It makes noteperformer play the full notated note length. That’s why I need to hide the tenuto.
I tried your idea of moving the tenuto off the page in Engrave mode, but it unfortunately still has collision-avoidance enabled, and thus wrecks the score, makes crazy huge vertical stave gaps, etc. I tried to find a way to disable the collision, but the insector has no such options for the Tenuto in the Engrave mode.
It’s fiddly, but you might be able to create a Playing Technique that triggers the Tenuto Playback Technique. This should, in theory, send the same data to NP as a Tenuto articulation. Then you can just hide it.
I may be wrong!
EDIT: I’m pretty sure there already is a Playing Technique for this. I think you type ten into the Playing Techniques popover.
If this is what you trying to achieve,
do the following:
select the tied notes
open Properties
in the Articulations section, enable Tenuto pos. in tie chain and click on Last note.
@VonGear sorry for not giving @StevenJones01’s answer. I didn’t see your edit in the first post.
As usual there’s a global option and a local property…
Engraving Options>Articulations>Ties…
And lower Properties Panel…
Yep, tenuto is assignable to the text techniques. This does the trick, thanks.
Perfect. 
I’d searched “tenuto” in engraving options, and nothing came up.
