Positioning the pedal indications is hit-or miss because they jump to a previous position after moving them with the mouse. I am using version 6.1.10.6078.
I read earlier about this issue when the 6.1 first came out and refrained from upgrading for that reason.I was under the impression the 6.1.1 fixed the issue. I have the “Align pedal lines across width of system: turned off.
Could you please show a video recording of exactly the issue as it is happening?
Wish I could, but I’ve never posted videos and when I try to make the video using Quicktime, the Quicktime controls disappear the moment I start using Dorico, and I am left with a darkened screen except for the bright recording rectangle. Even force quoting QuickTime doesn’t get me back to normal, and I have to Restart my Mac.
I was just dealing with this earlier today. Moving with the mouse is jumpy but using alt and the arrow keys seems to work fine and gives fine-grained control.
“Jumpy” is a good way of describing it. The pedal indications don’t stay where you put them and jump after you let go with the mouse.
It works normally with the arrow keys, as you said, but I prefer working with the mouse. For me, engraving is not typing, it’s drawing.
If you are in Engrave Mode, there will be no jumping.
It is in Write Mode, where it is probably better to leave the mouse at the side.
Thank you for confirming that you are also experiencing jumping in Engrave mode.
John, it was a typo: „no jumping“ it should read.
So basically in Engrave Mode one can be a „smooth operator“.
Waiting for Dorico’s Engage Mode 
Here is a video:
Ah, I see, it’s vertical. Does it also behave oddly, when you use the alt-arrow keys (I know you prefer the mouse)?
It behaves normally with the arrow keys.
The same phenomenon occurs in Dorico when moving staves. It is not possible to move them precisely to a specific value using the mouse. Whenever you release the mouse click, Dorico changes the value, sometimes more, sometimes less…
Thanks, Sven_S. I do quite a bit of staff moving and not noticed this, and just tried it. It doesn’t appear to be the same phenomenon to me. I am able to precisely position the staff so the distance remains the same when I release the mouse button, but only if I keep a very steady hand. The slightest hand movement will cause what you are showing.
Just to throw something in additionally:
For very exact mouse work one could slow down the mouse pointer in the system settings of the computer OS. I have had nervous mouse pointers, when having set the speed to a high value (to easily cover a big screen estate). Also the “mouse mat” or the surface, which the optical mouse is reading, could be uneven.
I myself are using an Apple Mighty Mouse (I think that’s its name) with very precise and stable results. And I have a “backup mouse” connected via USB, which is extremely unreliable (despite me giving it the function to be the backup…).