I posted this in the Next Gen Facebook page and got confirmation that this is reproducible but no other responses: “To Coda” is not working as I would have expected. Win11, Version 6.2.0.6088 The image was created from the lead sheet template to illustrate the situation. Resulting Playback flow is measure 1,2,3,2,3,4,5,3,1,2,3,6. Why is Dorico jumping to the beginning when it hits the “To Coda” after the D.S. instead of going straight to the Coda? The same thing is happening in my full project.
Hi Jeff,
Can you post the dorico file? There may be something we can’t see that is causing this.
(Also, I believe the playback flow you describe has an error; m1 would not be included in the repeat after the d.s., and some might question whether the repeat should be played after the d.s. as well — but, of course, that has nothing to do with the problem,)
— Jim
The To Coda must be placed before the repeat barline (not on it).
To Coda.dorico (1.4 MB) (This file only takes about 45 seconds to create from scratch.)
Sorted (kind of): Dorico is attaching the “To Coda” to the start of the next measure by default when I select the measure bar line for the “To Coda”: And this works as expected in another project where the “To Coda” is attached to the follow measure which is the start of a first ending. Also, the “D.S. al Coda” works fine attached to the bar line. So I’m still not clear on when you want Repeat Jumps attached to bar lines, or grid positions. Additionally, when you attach a “To Coda” under certain conditions, the jump is too early: 4/4 measure, quarter, quarter rest, half rest, with the grid set to half note - selecting the half rest for the “To Coda” jumps halfway through the measure, moving it with alt-arrow puts it in the next measure (and I get the jump to beginning behavior). So the question now is: is the jump to coda happening at the beginning of the grid position or after?
For those saying the attachment goes before the bar line, why does this file work?
To Coda 2.dorico (1.4 MB)
After playing around with repeat structures, I think there is an actual bug.
The first image has the “To Coda” attached at the beginning of measure 4. It plays back in the expected order. Adding the repeats around measures 2 and 3, and touching nothing else, changes the “To Coda” behavior: it now jumps to the beginning at the “To Coda”, and then the correct jump when it hits “To Coda” the SECOND time after the “D.S. al Coda”. Moving the “To Coda” attachment point to the “end” of measure 3 causes playback to shorten that measure by the grid value (where the “To Coda” is attached). So there is something wrong with the interaction between the repeat sign and the To Coda.
Attaching a “To Coda” to a grid point before the bar line shortens the measure by that grid value.
And now I find that the Coda jump works if the Segno is not in the middle of the repeated section.
Hey Jeff, did you ever stumble across a satisfactory solution for this? I’ve just encountered the exact same issue 
A submitted a bug and never got an acknowledgement that a fix is in the queue. 
Why would you expect that? Developers seldom pre-announce upcoming program changes. And that assumes what you found is a bug.
Maybe I should have phrased it as “No one from Dorico has acknowledged that there is a bug”. And I am confident that it is a bug.
I just downloaded your file and deleted the “to coda” and repeat sign in m3. I clicked the bar at the end of m3 and added “to coda” then added back the repeat at the end of the measure.
It plays 1,2,3,2,3,4,5,3,6(coda). Was this not what you wanted?
— Jim
I just tried your solution on a newly created file and still get the jump to the first bar. But maybe there is a specific order of entering the repeat structures that solve it.
Odd Repeat Structure.dorico (1.4 MB)
Is the above what you want? It seems to work for me. The first measure only plays at the start.
BTW, that doesn’t work: your coda attachment point causes it to skip the final half beat of the measure. If you input some eighth notes you’ll see the last one is skipped on the jump.
Hey Jeff, Sorry about that — I tested it out with quarter notes before I uploaded it. I just went back and used eighths and I see what you mean — it does indeed skip half a beat. I’ll play around with it and see if I can figure it out. Maybe in the meantime someone else will have an idea…
-– Jim
Edit: I can’t find a way around this. I did find a marker index property, but the “to Coda” doesn’t allow for a “jump to” setting (which is what I would have expected). It does appear to be a bug or at least an overlooked scenario! Perhaps @Richard_Lanyon could take a look?
It does look like a bug. I’ll log it here.
Thanks!