Playing techniques moving and colissioning after being assigned [Dorico 3.1.10]

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Dear community,

I have been experiencing a strange behavior in Dorico 3.1. I have several playing techniques assigned to a note and stacked in a column. Then, when I input more music or if I close and open the software, those techniques move and collide with each other. I notice that this do not happen consistently, since there are spots where these techniques remain in the place where I manually put them.

The curious thing is that, if I move them again a bit, they return to the position where I set them on the very first instance.

Here a short example: - YouTube

I am using a Macbook Pro retina early 2015, 2,7 GHz Intel Core i5, 16 GB 1867 MHz DDR3 with MacOS Mojave.

Apologies if the topic was already discussed, but I couldn’t find anything similar in the forums.

Thank you very much in advance.

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The video appears to be private. Could you make it public so we can see it, please?

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Sorry, yes. Now it should be public.

Thanks for the rapid reply!

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Playing Techniques (and various other items) have an engrave mode property called “Tucking Index”. The object with Tucking Index value of 0 goes closest to the note - automatically - and the object with Tucking Index value of 1 goes outside the object with Tucking Index of 0. And then an object with a Tucking Index value of 2 goes further away from the note.

I’m not explaining this terribly well, but my point is that there’s functionality for automatically stacking objects in a particular order. I’m not sure if there’s a bug here (or even if there’s a bug that’s been fixed in a more recent version of Dorico), but do try using the Tucking Index - it might improve matters.

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Thanks, Pianoleo! I will check if “tracking index” sorts things out and get back to you