S for Slur toggle?

Dorico
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Is there a way to use S as a toggle switch for slur rather than S for slur-on and Shift-S for slur-off?

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I don’t think so – it’s designed to cope with nested slurs, so you might start a second slur inside one you’re already ‘in’.

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I assume you’d have to click on a slur, then press Shift-S in your suggestion. How would that be any easier, faster, better than selecting a slur and pressing the Delete key?

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The OP was asking about turning off the slur during input, not deleting afterward.

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Yes, I was just thinking it would make more sense that it would be an easy toggle for turning it on and turning it off during note entry, but there may in fact be a good reason why this is not possible.

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Possibly due to habits acquired elsewhere, I tend to do “multiple passes” on the music.
I’ll add the notes, and then go over it and add the slurs, dynamics, techniques, etc. Then lyrics. Sometimes page by page; sometimes shorter or longer chunks.

It’s very quick to select the first and last notes, and then press S to slur them. For a two-note slur, you just select the first note.

Multiple passes usually means I catch things I got wrong the first time.

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I too follow the multi-pass approach. Not least because you often see patterns of slurs that can be entered using paste articulations, thus saving many keystrokes.

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