Please, this marking (Da capo al segno) often appears in older transcriptions, but I can’t find it in Dorico. How can I add it to the window? Or, could you add it to a future version of Dorico?
Thanks
You could use D.C al Coda with custom text, but it won’t play back properly. (not without some clever @johnkprice workaround)
Jesper
Engrave mode:
Thanks, can I ask for the exact link, please?
Indeed, the marking changes, but nothing happens…
Not sure what link you refer to. If you mean for playback, I don’t have a link for this specific case.
Jesper
What happens after the segno? Where does the music jump to?
Great idea, I hadn’t thought of that.
Thanks…
But, guys, it would be better if it were automated like the others.
Over the centuries there have been many different formats used. Dorico standardises the most common ones used today, whilst also providing ways to customise to replicate the more unusual ones (like yours).
I understand, but it’s important to consider that not everyone who uses Dorico is a composer. Many, coming from Finale, work primarily with ancient manuscripts, and this recommendation is more common there than it is today. Perhaps if there were a procedure where the user could independently set rules, that would be fantastic. That way, I could avoid disturbing other users.
It always amuses me the assumptions that people make about Dorico users…
Dorico users have many different needs and “working with ancient manuscripts” is nothing special. Nor is “coming from Finale.” We all arrived from somewhere…
Indeed there are many transcribers/arrangers/copyists (some from Finale) that have no interest at all in ancient manuscripts, but are more concerned with (say) chord symbols and percussion kits. Whilst others are challenged with the cutaways and aleatoric boxes that feature in modern manuscripts… None is totally satisfied.
Yes, Dorico is still young compared to Sibelius and Finale, so it obviously can’t have all the features that Finale has. However, it’s still rigid in certain menus, and this causes quite a few problems. I recently had to make a transcription, again of early music (by Vivaldi, if I remember correctly), where there was a tempo change in the middle of a bar for an instrument. Maybe I’m not very experienced, but after a lot of trial and error, I finally managed to do it with Finale (I know you can also do it with the opt-enter command, but this time it was a tempo change within a bar, and I just couldn’t get it right). Things like this just make our lives unnecessarily complicated.
On the other hand Dorico has a lot of features which Finale has never had (e.g. flows, smart cues, dynamic layout and reasonable condensing), and in both applications some notation problems can only be solved with less or more weird workarounds.
micro tonality, open time signatures, independent time signatures…
Jesper
… are possible in Finale 
AFAIK, you can insert a tempo change at any position.
Or, do you mean you wanted one of the instruments to speed up or slow down, and let the rest of the orchestra keep the same tempo?
Right, unlike Dorico Finale thinks in bars. There was a workaround AFAIR, though
The tempo change occurred within a measure; I’ll show you what I’m talking about. It’s an aria from Vivaldi’s opera “L’incoronazione di Dario”. After trial and error, in the end (tired as I was), I preferred to do it with Finale. Because, while there are workarounds, I can’t really waste a lot of time when the client wanted the score by the next day.
He had requested five arias for the next day, and this was one of them.
