Making slight nudges to the horizontal position of single noteheads

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I want to drag the C# note slight to the right and the B very slightly to the left and for no other graphic changes to happen. Using voice column index is not the answer because those adjustments are far too coarse - if these note heads are not nearly in alignment then the player will not play them simultaneously.

I’ve tried to use the horizontal dragging stuff (alt arrow keys) in engrave mode but no matter what I grab the other, wrong, objects move. Please could someone sent me a screenshot of:

  • which objects I grab (if not the C# notehead and B notehead)
  • and then which handles I move.

These situations are rare, but I find it almost impossible to fix them.

In same Dorico file I also have two other issues.

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Bar 50 No matter what I do Dorico insists on representing my crotchet as two quavers.
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Bar 77. I’d prefer the fermenta to be above the staff. Is that possible? Pressing “f” doesn’t flip it.

(… as always I feel so mean complaining about all these tiny issues :umbrella_with_rain_drops: … unfortunately players are easily put off by typography errors).
Ms2-2.Move2.dorico (1.9 MB)

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Assign Voics Column to the 3 voices, then each voice will get a handle in Engrave Mode and you can move it around

Force Duration and then key 6 makes it a 1/4-note which I assume you wanted

It does not flip in Write Mode, but in Engrave Move. More exact vertical adjustments of items can then be made.

Ms2-2.Move2.dorico (1.9 MB)

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Thank you. I didn’t realise that setting voice column Index would also provide extra handles.

As regards the crotchet - I’d tried “o” “6” several times without success - but then it just worked. I find “force duration” to be erratic - sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn’t.

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Sometimes one needs to untie the notes, select the first, and set this as the “wanted duration”.

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Yes, the manual pages are not explicit about this

The text could benefit from a note stating that detailed voice arrangements require separate voice-column indexes.