Following up on John Barron’s comment that Dorico 6 would focus on notational improvements. What features do you hope for?
My bucket list has:
Is this what you are wanting in the first line of your bucket list?
If so, it is already in Dorico 5 Pro - in Engrave mode, select the first notehead in a group of beamed notes, then Properties > Beaming.
My first wanted feature would be the long awaited ties in repeat box.
Second: fixes for condensing, and condensing all held instruments, not only the first.
Third: support for cut-out scores. So that I don’t have to read so many requests for this feature 
(I suppose I won’t need it much!)
I would agree with these, but of course the decision what to include in Dorico 6 (except for low-hanging, last-minute bugs that come to light) was almost certainly made months ago.
Yes, I’m sure the scope was fixed a while back.
But I guess there’s no harm in saying what we’re hoping to see!
For me, these things would be great in the notation area:
Proper condensing of vocal parts
Ties into repeat endings
Intelligent automatic vertical alignment of dynamics across the width of the staff
Better handling of solo staves in divisi.
And aleatoric boxes.
Jesper
I just wanted to have right click for everything like in musescore, and also numbered notation feature 
like this one i did in Musescore …
Better support for Renaissance Lute notation!
Just throwing that in, to show that everyone wants something different.
Maybe Aleatoric Renaissance Lute notation boxes.
Jesper
Multiple independently moveable fingerings per note.
Input of any symbol or symbol combination as a fingering.
Simpler handling of octave lines so user can easily angle them as they wish and the ends of the octave lines are the standard ones and not boxed off as shown here:
Complete overhaul of Playing Techniques Panel, with ability to organize user-created categories, subcategories and items.
In the Playing Techniques editor, identification of the of font(s) used in user-created Playing Techniques.
Cross-staff to/from percussion kits.
Jesper
Off the top of my head …
Lines with repeatable objects ability to end anywhere. Now have to draw a full object so difficult to end at an exact position.
Jesper
For me:
It’s possible, nay likely, that none of the above (except for #1, perhaps) falls under “notational improvements.” Bof
Rob
Cut-away parts for more random performances.
Just joking.
Jesper
Playback of complicated repeats and dal segnos.
Choral music condensing
Second ending ties
Much more control over beaming and ties in syncopations via general options, so one at least doesn’t have to resort to force duration to realize standard groupings: ties to the second-heaviest beat in the measure on the 8th-note level and to every beat on the 16th-note level.
Oh @John_at_Steinberg … Behold what you have wrought!
Yes, I want this as a per-project setting in Engraving Options.
My one wish notationally would be better cautionary accidental management. While the options are legion compared to Finale (even when employing the JW Accidentals plugin), the one thing I’m missing is to consider accidentals in another staff and apply a cautionary if needed. Yes, I can use CMD-R to take other notes into account, but the end result always feels unpredictable, and in any case, it would be great to not have to do that all the time. Thanks.
