I have noticed that I still had this problem on the last eighth note of a bar that had sf<
Dorico would only display the sf below the note.
I will try to send you a file when I come back from holidays, the project was started and finished in 4.2 and this problem annoyed me enough that I remember it 
I recently experienced this problem too, and even setting the minimum length of the hairpins to 0 does not draw all hairpins (see the attached Horn 2 part). I see that having a signpost for hidden dynamics would be difficult to implement, but it would be very helpful in situations like these.
Toccata.dorico (1.7 MB)
Yes, that’s a case that Dorico should probably be able to handle better, ultimately. It won’t work out that it needs to add more space when it shifts the dynamic back to the left of the barline, so it doesn’t “know” that the hairpin won’t have enough space to appear. As you’ve probably found, you can add more space using the note spacing tool in Engrave mode, but it would be ideal if you didn’t have to, of course.
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Has this been fixed as of 5.1? The “minimum hairpin length” seems to be gone from engraving options, but I’m still having this problem.
Unfortunately not.
The option to specify the minimum length for a hairpin is still present, in the Advanced Options section of the Gradual Dynamics section of the Dynamics page of Engraving Options.
Hi Daniel,
For further versions of Dorico, would it be possible that the measure just becomes automatically larger to fit the crescendo/decrescendo?
As for now, I’ve got the situation in which the cresc. appears in gallery view but not on page view.
As for the advanced options, is it this one? If so, what value would you recommend doing, taking into account that it might affect other cresc and decresc in the score?
Thank you.
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Dorico already increases the horizontal space for the bar in order to try to ensure that the hairpin will always appear, but unfortunately this does not work with 100% reliability, and that is certainly something we need to address in future. There’s no option you can tweak at the moment that will cause the hairpin to appear in the situation you show, because the gap between the two dynamics is simply too small. You will have to make a manual adjustment to note spacing in order to persuade the hairpin to appear.