Playing Technique(s)

[mountainmusic]

@dankreider

@rodrigoruiz1988

I’m wondering if adding lines (or arrows) to indicate a gradual change from one playing technique to another has been added by now… I’ve searched everywhere but can’t seem to find it. I need to indicate in a score for a piece I’m writing a change from tre corde to una corda in the space of two bars.

No, but you can use Arrow Crafter font quite successfully for this.

The problem with using text and font to recreate arrows is that measures are different widths in the full score and the parts; it’s doesnt auto adjust as a playing technique like a piano pedal line now does. It’s quite tough to balance just the right amount of text for the arrow to indicate the change and make it look good in full score and parts. (I spent about 8 hours over the weekend on this exact problem, editing text arrows that I had created in various places over 800 measures in a chamber opera score. I pray to the Dorico Gods for arrows and brackets in the next update;)