Playing Techniques disambiguation problem

Playing Techniques disambiguation problem:

So I have had similar things happen before, where I create a Playing Technique that does not want to add itself to the score when I select it from the popover. In each case, if I recall the issue seems to be when two techniques are similar in name, that somehow Dorico does not disambiguate them, and seems to use only one of them.

So here is a current example:
I made three Playing Techniques with three corresponding Playback Techniques I call “spot vibrato”.
These are just a method to quickly add a vibrato playback to individual notes in a score.
I have three levels represented here for light, medium and heavy vibrato settings.
Screenshot 2024-09-26 at 12.53.38 PM


Of those three, “V- (spot vibrato)” does not work correctly when I select it in the popover.

It gives me “V (spot vibrato)” whenever I select it (“V” in the score):


Here you can see the clear differentiation between the two in the Library:


This is not the first time this has happened.

Also, I have been run in circles in the process of making these types of variants in the Playing Techniques editor when linking them to Playback Techniques where when I change the Playback Techniques of one of the variants, it changes some of the others as well. Not very clear what is going on but I think in each case symbols (non-letters) were involved (such as +,-,<,# etc.).

At one point I made a “<” technique to use as a reverse accent attribute, but unfortunately I had to get rid of it because my score started playing back this reverse accent playback technique in place of any notes marked with the normal accent (“>”) symbol.

Update-

After changing the popover text to “V minus (spot vibrato)”

I can now get Dorico to add “V-” to the score from the Playing Techniques popover:
Screenshot 2024-09-26 at 2.02.52 PM

I guessing then that some elements of the Playing and Playback technique system does not recognize certain symbols, or cannot disambiguate them, hence it does not see “V-” as different from “V”.

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Well done figuring this out. It’s good to know.