These are all my development requests from mine and others’ previous posts, compiled:
Properties currently can’t be set globally and then individually altered locally, without reversing the global properties for all the layouts
I think I understand the way Dorico approaches this—when you set a local property as global, it moves to the global settings and that item can no longer be changed locally, without undo-ing the global property.
My current approach to dialogue in theatre score, where it needs to appear on the Score, the Piano/Vocal, and the Piano/Conductor, is using staff-attached text on the top vocal line, when available, or staff-attached text on both the rehearsal piano staff (Piano/Vocal) and the Piano/Cond…
Syncopation grouping is one feature away from being complete, I think
Copied and pasted from a FB post on the topic…
I know this has been discussed many times in this group, but let me add my plea about fixing the syncopation options in the Notation Options.
A is wrong. B is wrong. C is correct. (At least for MANY traditions of writing easy-to-read rhythms)
But currently, with the options provided, you can only get A or B. Yes, I know you can get C by using Force Duration… it’s how I created sample C in the first place. But, honestly, C is so much more cor…
Staff spacing on non-justified pages is typically too tight in comparison to the justified ones around them, with no setting to help with this
I have a good handle on vertical justification, and I generally set it around 70% to space systems to fill the frame. It’s beautiful.
The problem is that, if the last page has only a couple systems, I don’t want it to justify to fill the frame (since it’s nowhere near the percentage threshold, and the staves would be ridiculously far apart). But that means the staves usually look a little squished compared to the previous page. I try to monkey with Ideal Gaps and such, but it never quite works …
Selecting chord symbols isn’t ideal
Been thinking about chord selection again, while working on a project that has me drafting tons of different chord progressions and copying, altering, transposing, etc. Every time I do it, it feels like one or two extra clicks than necessary even with a shortcut for filter chords, and it requires me to have system track enabled (which I normally prefer to disable).
I would also ultimately prefer click (leftmost chord symbol), shift click (rightmost chord symbol), but I know that chord selection…
Can’t undo while in chord or lyric entry
+1 on chord/lyric entry undo while popover is active
Text blocks don’t move with the score and system text doesn’t affect score spacing, which makes theatre work much more difficult
The use case is for theatrical works, when you have dialogues that is underscored, and you want it to be in flow with the music, because the same performers need to read both the dialogue and the music. Here’s a quick example:
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This is the most common at the beginning of the flow, but could also be mid-flow.
Another similar use case is writing dialogue “cues” for the musicians, so they know when to start. This is not possible without overrides either. Here’s an example:
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Rearranging flows also requires moving around page overrides. For larger works, especially theatre scores where overrides may be more common, this is very messy.
I want to reorder flows in a file of 20 flows. When I do so, text frames don’t move, and music is often reformatted. Is there a way to move around flows keeping everything in each flow intact? THANKS!
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