I have a poco più f playing technique, but I want it to align left with the note. Since Dorico does not treat it as a dynamic, I cannot use properties to align it.
In the Playing Technique Editor, the “alignment handle” is locked. Can anyone tell me how to unfreeze it so I can move it to the left?
Thanks in advance.
Why are you using a playing technique? It’s quite straightforward to add a f dynamic, give it the prefix poco più, and let the whole thing left-align via settings in the Properties panel.
Particularly in a file that uses it multiple times, I find it easier to apply the playing technique than to keep typing in the additional text, especially concerning the accented u.
In addition, I often do not want to actually apply a forte dynamic but instead am using it as one or more stepping stones between mf and f.
I admit that you have a point in that I could use ALT/OPT+Click to place multiple instances and Suppress Playback. Sometimes its “6 of one and half a dozen of the other.”
Still, I would like to know how to move the focus handle on a Playing Technique.
Are you referring to the fact the X offset for the first element doesn’t actually work (and probably should be greyed out in the current implementation) or something else?
If that’s what you mean, you just have to give it something to have an offset from. Personally, I think this step really shouldn’t be necessary, but that’s the only way I know how to get it to work. When you create the Playing Technique input a blank space as its own element first, next input poco più, then input the dynamic. Since poco più is now its own element separate from the blank space, you can now specify an X offset from the space.
For example, an X offset of -95 …
… now yields this result:
Is that what you were trying to do?
I was trying to move the handle inside the second o of poco to coincide with the left border of the text, but (in a pinch) your solution should accomplish the same thing. Thank you.
If anyone can help with my original goal, I will appreciate it.
I think we’re talking about the same thing then. Any positioning done to the first element placed in this editor, no matter what it is, simply does not work. It’s not greyed out, and there’s no feedback to let the user know it doesn’t work, but it just doesn’t work and the adjustments are not reflected in the score.
If I move that handle from the center of the second o to be right in the middle of the crosshairs like above, I still get this in the score:
The only solution I know of is to have something else be the first element in the editor, like a blank space.
