Hi guys!
Here is a quick snapshot of something set up in the classic Finale Notation Software in just 5 minutes.
Finale has a feature called staff styles, which lets you set attributes for a staff and apply them within the same staff system. This is a great way, for example, to insert a blank staff or change the number of staff lines, including 0 lines.
Finale also allows me to create numbered noteheads easily.
I spent the last 30 minutes reading on this forum about how to trick Dorico into doing this. It’s confusing, and it’s surprising that such basic functionality isn’t available in such an expensive program.
I’m not using this post to get tips on another time-consuming and frustrating workaround. Instead, I hope some Dorico programmer sees this and considers adding these two features. I know of no other way to send a feature request to the Dorico team.
CHEERS!
Hi @Thomas_Gunther,
Well actually it is available 
:
Something like this?
Dorico file example:
scale degrees numbers.dorico (1.4 MB)
In Library>Notehead Sets…, in the Scale Degree category, you will find a new Notehead set (called cgr numbers)(*). You can apply it to any written music.
I created this. You can use and save this file as a template: write your music in flow 1, and then copy to flow 2, and apply the new notched set, etc… Or check the star in the Notehead sets dialogue, after choosing that specific notehead set, to save this set as default. I created also a dedicated Font Style for those numbers: which you can customise from menu Library>Font Styles—>cgr foont for numbered pitches (yes it was typo).
Workflow:
Write your music in a normal staff. (For the positioning in the 0-line staff, I found that using a Major scale starting from F2, centres your 135 example nicely). You need then to hide the stems in Engrave Mode Properties Panel.
Then using a 0-line instrument you can copy your material into it, and then apply the notehead set (selecting the notes and right clicking > Notehead.
Then I made some adjustments in the barline protrusion, and in the spacing gaps (Engrave Options), default barlines and start of system barline behaviour (Notation Options), and some customisations in Layout Options (Bar numbers, Rastral Size, etc…).
For further reference here the Manual:
And a video (already available from Dorico 2!):
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Thanks for your reply, Chris. You are a very resoursful person. Unfortunately, you just provided workarounds again. There is no native functionality that allows me to create a staff with 0 staff lines in Dorico, or hide them for a view bars in the middle of a staff, nor is there a ready-to-use feature that displays all note heads as pitch numbers. For example, when selecting notes and I do a right click I can select different notehead shapes, as well as some pitched note head sets, but not the numbered note heads. That’s what I want Dorico to give me natively.
You can very well do this (giving a player a normal 5-lines instrument as well as the 0-line instrument, and using instrument changes):
hide staff lines with 0-line instrument.dorico (1.3 MB)
The Notehead Sets functionality is very powerful and gives you all the tools to create your own personalised Sets. So is not a workaround but a functionality.
You need to create it only once, customise it as desired, and save it as default, to use it in all future projects. I think it would be impossible to provide all kind of Sets that the users need, as someone would like for example circled numbers notehead, or mushroom shaped noteheads or whatever… So you have all the tools needed to create your personal Set (or in this case youse what I provided to you, which you can customise)
The same is said also about Page Template: “Why the arranger token is not already present in the factory templates?”. The answer is the same: there are too many variations (infinite actually) of how this can be set up.So each one can create its own, and save as template.
For the 0-line instrument, which was provided by @FredGUnn, you also need to “install” it only once, and you have it always available in the Custom instruments category, and it will behave as all other instruments, with the possibility to customise the Instrument Definition, etc… So not a workaround but an addition.
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