Hi, Dan. I’ve created a new text style as you’ve suggested. But where do I go from here? I would like to set up (as in Finale) a dialogue frame where I had all of my options - Intro, Chorus, etc. - ready to go, where I would just click on them to enter into the score. Is this not possible in Dorico?
No, but you can easily type them in using this method.
Alternatively, you could also add these as playing techniques, and assign their key bindings to simple things like v for verse, c for chorus.
So it would be Shift-P, v, Enter.
I tried adding them to Playing Techniques, but I ran into a snag. Please see here:
I’ve imported a couple of old Finale files as XMLs. In Dorico I created custom rehearsal marks in one of them. Everything looks great. The rehearsal marks show up in all the parts. But with the other file I’m not able to apply them to all the parts, just the top part (i.e. Flute). Any ideas of what I’m doing wrong?
Did you create the rehearsal marks as System Text (Shift+Ctrl+X) or Staff Text (Shift+X)? System text will show up on all Parts, but be display above certain groups of instruments in the Full Score (as determined in Layout Options under Staves and Systems/System Objects).
Staff Text will only show on the staff you created it on.
Thank you.
In the successful file, I created rehearsal marks under Write>Create Text>Rehearsal Marks. This allowed me to customize each marking individually. However, I can’t get this method to work in the second file. Don’t know why.
Perhaps System Text is what I want?
I like the default paragraph style of the Rehearsal Marks so I hoped my method would work on all my files.
Have you tried it with Write > Create Rehearsal Mark, rather than Write>Create Text>Rehearsal Mark?
I believe Create Rehearsal Mark’s default is sequential numbers or letters. I’m creating non-sequential marks.
That can be worked around by adding a suffix to the letter chosen for the Rehearsal Mark.
An “easy”(?) way to get closer to the op’s wish would be if it was possible to have a prefix alternative to the suffix,
My only small problem w rehearsal marks is that if I add or take away one during work my own letters will become different from the ones already distributed to the musicians which has created a couple of ridiculous situations,
Then use numbers followed by a suffix. The numbers would stay in order as one changed rehearsal marks, but the text would remain constant.
If I recall correctly, Daniel as said that team is working on a way to label sections of a song aside from System Text or Rehearsal Marks. No idea when that might materialize.
Prefixes are provided for in Rehearsal Marks.
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Aha, good. Thank you Derrek
System Text works. I don’t see why Write>Create Text>Rehearsal Marks doesn’t.
Because Write > Create Text only creates staff-attached text, whereas Create System Text creates system-attached text.
Registering my request for improvements in the “Go To Rehearsal Marks” command, and the jump bar’s shorthand command for jumping among rehearsal marks, and for more clarity and detail in the Help text that covers these commands. I was trying today to set up a rehearsal mark scheme much like the one of the OP’s. Right away ran into stiff headwinds. (Please forgive me if I’ve missed a good explanation of this stuff in Help, or if I’ve misunderstood how rehearsal marks and the related navigation commands work.)
The Go To box should list rehearsal marks by the text they display—if a mark is “B1” or “A2a” on the music, it should appear that way in the Go To box. That text should be followed by the number or letter you would use to reach it with the jump bar shorthand command, in parentheses or a separate column.
Also, all rehearsal marks should be accessible with the jump bar’s “rn” command. Currently, that command navigates based on absolute alphabetic or numeric order of the rehearsal marks in a flow—but that order includes only those marks having the same sequence type as set in Engraving Options->Rehearsal Marks.
Rehearsal marks having a different sequence type are skipped by and inaccessible from the jump bar.
Until these issues are addressed, please update the Help material to reflect the way all this currently works. It took me awhile to understand that the Go To → Rehearsal mark field does not refer to either the rehearsal mark text or an index number but to a consecutively-ordered list of all rehearsal marks matching the default sequence type set in Engraving Preferences.
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