Please provide an option to prohibit double accidentals (or triple ones!) from ever appearing in my score.
When it happens I have to Write | Transpose | Unison | Respell to avoid double and triple sharps and flats | Always and that works, but such tedious machinations interrupt the composer’s flow, a nagging annoyance.
Then I key in some more notes and double accidentals appear again, requiring manual correction.
IMO Dorico is overly pedantic about “correct spelling”. I feel like whenever I write a passage that modulates a lot, Dorico is scolding me by implying “your music is weird and requires weird notation”. No it doesn’t. For gosh sake, the notes are right there in the key signature and there is no reason to apply absurd, unreadable spellings.
ALSO:
Sometimes Dorico refuses to transpose a passage! The Transpose Key Signature checkbox is grayed out. I went back and selected the key signature along with the notes, and now Transpose Key Signature is available, but when I check it, I am not permitted to transpose a semitone down. Other transpose intervals are permitted, but not semitone. Bug? I tried transpose by number of divisions, with the same result: I am allowed to transpose my passage with its key signature 2 or 3 semitones, but not 1. Related symptom is that sometimes one is not permitted to select the interval Minor Second, only Major Second, on the transpose menu. This is perplexing, to say the least!
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Selecting the passage you want to change and using the Shift+I Note Tools popover works too. I have a Stream Deck button set up to invoke that popover and apply this:
ax=b, bx=c#, cx=d, dx=e, ex=f#, fx=g, gx=a, abb=g, bbb=a, cbb=bb, dbb=c, ebb=d, fbb=eb, gbb=f, b#=c, e#=f, cb=b, fb=e
You probably are already aware, but you’re using MIDI Input, there are a bunch of settings to check in Note Input / MIDI Input too.:
The following setting can be helpful, but because Dorico considers all the music input during that sequence of note input (meaning it resets if you leave the input caret) it can occasionally can take you into some really weird enharmonic territory:
I find Dorico also does better with this when I input directly in the written key for transposing instruments rather than concert. If I input in concert, when I flip to transposed there’s a much higher chance of strange enharmonic choices. YMMV.
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That usually happens because you’ve selected two key signatures that can’t be transposed in the same way.
But as ever, if you can show specific examples, that will help finding available solution; and also show the dev team the problem.
This is relevant to my interests. Following. 
Thanks a lot! I never noticed those MIDI Input options and, frankly, mine were defaulted to disallow remote accidentals - but got them anyway.
Your Note Tools popover macro works, that is VERY VERY helpful. Thank you!
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On a related issue, sometimes users have complained that Dorico refuses to transpose by a minor second but what is actually needed is transposition by an augmented unison. For example, F#->F isn’t actually a second at all.
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