A previous post (Statistitcs - #4 by steveparker) did mention this in passing.
I would like to know on a flow and/or project basis number of notes, bars, amendments etc for billing purposes. That’s not to say that I charge by the note or articulation but I want to be able to justify my costs.
May I ask how others do this and whether there is likely to be any new function in this area.
Thank you!
It’s not something we’ve done any work on to date, but we know that some copyists do charge by the “frame” (i.e. bar per staff) and that some statistics could be generally useful. I don’t think there’s a practical approach to generating these kinds of statistics at the moment.
I’d be interested to know from users what specific statistics they would find useful to know about.
I’ve never charged by the frame, but I know some users that have. Finale’s “File Statistics” reports frames (one bar of one staff), non-whole rest frames, pages, systems, and measures so I imagine all of those would be useful.
Some other various Finale stats can be found using Document/Data Check/File Maintenance. There used to be a “Count Items” plug-in too but they killed that off a while ago I think.
Project or Flow length (in minutes : seconds) would certainly be helpful. Some sort of per staff range indication could be useful for brass or vocal musicians, especially for the educational market. Perhaps any statistical info regarding fonts would be good too, like number of fonts in use and possibly a list of fonts used in the project. Some Dorico-specific info might be helpful to have listed all in one place, like number of Flows, number (and possibly a list of) Expression Maps in use, number (and possibly a list of) Percussion Maps in use, etc.
If a graphical interface with all this is too much development time, I would think an Export File Info feature that dumps all this info into a .txt file or something could certainly be helpful.
I second these stats! Total measures and frames to me would be the important ones.
Ooohhh… and a list of fonts used. That would be huge.
Fred beat me to it…
As a long-time Sibelius and Finale user (I’m in remission now, unless my hand is forced by a publisher), I had in mind what both these packages could do. Fred has summed them up above.
Of course, were Dorico’s scripting language more advanced, I’d gladly write my own, as I’m sure would others.
Perhaps I should have asked for scripting and plug ins, rather than stats 
Has there been any movement on this since 2021? I second pretty much everything everyone has said on this post. Any statistics would be valuable to me, and the more, the better.
We haven’t added any features for this as yet, but it’s something we would like to add. What specific statistics would be helpful to you?
Lots of things!
Active frame count (the non-empty bars kind), number of notes, number of lyric syllables, … any and all of the statistics that Sibelius provides with the “count items” dialog would be useful, even if it’s only one or two of those statistics.
My memory of Sibelius has almost completely atrophied these days, and I don’t have the means to run a modern version of the software. (Sibelius 7.1.3 forever, baby.)
Could you attach a screenshot of the Count Items dialog from Sibelius for my edification? I’m guessing it’s a plug-in, though it’s not one I have any recollection of.
Not often I laugh out loud when I’m alone, but this did it for me!
I need to remove all occurrences of a specific articulation (staccato tenuto) in a project. Is there a way to check for spots that I missed? e.g. by a more granular display of the project statistic how many articulcations of a specific type are in place.
Hi, thanks for this hint. Unfortunately, this will not work for me as I have some other articulations (e.g. simple staccato) that I would like to keep. So the way to select a region, apply staccato tenuto to all notes and remove it again would also lead to an overwriting/losing of other articulations.
Seems like Dorico is not capable of doing this. Since articulations are somehow counted in the project stats, I thought that might be the easiest way for Dorico to give a hint about it.
It sounds like this might be an XML import. If so, it is possible to remove the unwanted articulations from the XML file itself. I recall a discussion of this here some time in the past year; let us know if you can’t find it by searching.
Hi Mark,
thanks for this suggestion. This solved the problem. I can look for “detached-legato” and remove this parts in the document. Great hint!
Thanks and regards,
RaPaSa
