How to use Shift+O (Ornaments) popover

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With single note selected:

Press Shift+O, type “mor” + Enter = Mordent
Press Shift+O, type “invmor” + Enter = Inverted Mordent
Press Shift+O, type “turn” + Enter = Turn
Press Shift+O, type “invturn” + Enter = Inverted Turn
Press Shift+O, type “tr” + Enter = Trill
Press Shift+O, type “gliss” + Enter = Glissando (straight) to next note
Press Shift+O, type “gliss” + Enter = Glissando (straight) to next note
Press Shift+O, type “glisswav” + Enter = Glissando (wavy) to next note

With two notes selected:
Press Shift+O, type “gliss” + Enter = Glissando (straight) between notes
Press Shift+O, type “glisswav” + Enter = Glissando (wavy) between notes

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Thanks for this and also for your other post on barline popovers. I’d discovered a lot of these, as well. Entering barlines with the popover is quite quick, but I’m still trying to find a way to streamline entering things like ornaments, a little like the ease of entering the basic articulations. Entering a glissando via the popover takes 11 keystrokes which is hardly an option if you have to enter many of them. Using the palette is quicker but still requires a lot of mouse movement back and forth. I’ve already created macros for dynamics: clicking a note and pressing Ctrl-3 is quicker than clicking a note, pressing Shift-D, M, F, Enter. I might try something similar for some of the standard ornaments. Fortunately, Dorico seldom uses the Ctrl key for its shortcuts.

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Note that Mordent is actually a (short) trill and Inverted Mordent is a normal Mordent.
I hope the other standard baroque ornaments will follow soon. MuseScore has some 15 + two French ornaments. (Tremblement and pincé)

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Note that Daniel has added his list of Popover parameters for Write Mode to the FAQ sticky at the top of the threads page.

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But that does not add any ornament…

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Which ornaments didn’t it add?

(I will admit that trying to add an ornament to the first note did not work initially, but when I went back to it, it did work.)
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I think srh means “you can’t user any ornaments except the small number defined in the popover” - for example http://www.smufl.org/version/1.2/range/precomposedTrillsAndMordents/ or http://www.smufl.org/version/1.2/range/otherBaroqueOrnaments/

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You may be right, but srh said that it didn’t add “any” ornament.

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If you download the Goldberg Variations aria (or my versions of a couple of the variations) which I posted in another thread, you’ll see that I used text blocks to enter non-supported ornaments, which is a viable workaround until Dorico somehow makes a completer palette of ornaments available via the popover, although I wonder how they’ll implement this. I made a text style called ornaments which selects the Bravura font and you can use a font utility to scroll to where the required ornament is. Dorico version 1.0.10 supports the use of a font utility like PopChar.

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