Pedal sign glyph continuation - no parenthesis

[j.sotomski]

Hello everyone. I’ve stumbled across a problem with a Pedal sign not showing parenthesis on continuation mark across the systems - as seen on the screenshot.

I’ve tried placing a new marking, resetting the program, I even tried to place it somewhere else (other flow in the project) with no luck. It does however work with “Ped. text” option.

I’ve seen that a lot of people asked for an option to remove the continuation mark at all, I’ve also found a workaround done by Daniel Spreadbury and I think that I’ll use it (still better to remove it at all than have pianist confuse to retrigger the pedal). But seeing how bad its reputation is and how it can fail to act I’d be for an option to show/hide continuation in the first place.

Just for the future and an opportunity to learn something new in my case - what is the cause of parenthesis not showing up?

[judddanby]

I don’t have a ready answer, but I’m curious: does it appear properly in the piano part layout (if it even happens to be at a system break)?

[Janus]

@j.sotomski

I’ve stumbled across a problem with a Pedal sign not showing parenthesis on continuation mark across the systems - as seen on the screenshot.

Have you set the correct Engraving Option?

Have you perhaps overridden the global option in the Pedal properties?

[j.sotomski]

@judddanby Nope, it’s the same thing with piano part.

@Janus Yes, it’s set to parenthesis. Same thing with the lower zone panel - I’ve tried all combinations, but with no luck

[Mark_Johnson]

It’s best if you can post a version of the project cut down to just the problem area. Then we can find out what’s going on in a minute.

[j.sotomski]

Sure thing,

I’ve attached the file to this post.

All best!
hypercanzony MASTER pedal.dorico (1.7 MB)

[Mark_Johnson]

Thanks! Now here’s a poser for us: As soon as I open your project, I see the Ped. continuation at bar 6 in parentheses. So I don’t know what could be making the difference.

[judddanby]

I can confirm the desired behavior Mark’s seeing here.

Here are three screenshots:

Note, per @Janus, the different Properties states:

[j.sotomski]

Guess I’ll have to live with it I checked if it does show on PDF export, but sadly not.

Anyway, thank you @judddanby @Janus @Mark_Johnson for your willingness to help!

[Mark_Johnson]

Well, others are welcome to investigate, and soon someone on the team will see this and maybe can ask some more probing questions.

[dspreadbury]

I’m afraid the parentheses also appear as expected for me here. Can you check in Library > Music Symbols whether the Left/Right parenthesis for pedal marking symbols appear correctly?

[j.sotomski]

Hi @dspreadbury

Yup, that’s the case. Although I have no recollection changing it, however it’s my first project, imported from Finale XML etc etc. I’m still learning the paradigm of Dorico trying to grasp all the options located in different places.

Thank you very much for your help!

#caseclosed