No border appears. There’s no condensing involved or anything else fancy; none of the border styles works. Moving the text item doesn’t change anything.
I started a new blank piece, wrote a few measures, added some staff-attached text, and the border behaved as expected. So it’s something about the file in question. That file uses the font Source Serif 4 (bundled with MTF-Cadence); but changing the text font to Academico doesn’t help, either.
Here are instructions for showing borders on text items:
Here are instructions for changing the border style:
Here is where the Properties panel is explained, with its filter controls:
What is it that you believe is missing? There is often a balance to be struck between covering all potential bases for any one specific action of the hundreds that are possible in Dorico, vs the documentation being so full of caveats and warnings that it becomes hard to find the relevant info.
@Lillie_Harris. The confusion here is that Hide/Show Border property for a text object is a global property, whereas the Border Style is a local property (that does not include the option “none”).
How is the user to know they must set the global Border switch to show before they can use the local border style property, when the global switch does not appear in properties if the panel is set to show local only?
More logically, the local property for border style should not be visible (or at least be inactive) if the global border property is set to hide.
Hi, Lillie,
I was writing a several-paragraph answer to your question, when @Janus wrote a much more succinct response, so I’ll defer to him. I’ll just add that if you look at (for example) the Accidentals section of the Notes and Rests section in the Properties panel, you can’t even see the options unless the enabling switch is turned on, and I believe that’s what @Janus is referring to. This sort of thing seems to be a design choice in Dorico. It works fine most of the time; in this (minor) case, implementing it seems to have escaped notice. A teeny tiny polishing bug, imo.
Thanks for your constant excellent support!
Bill Conable
