I want to create a ‘sempre crescendo’ dynamic mark.
I Press Shift-D and type ‘sempre cresc.’ or ‘sempre crescendo’. In both cases Dorico writes only ‘cresc.’ on the score and ignores the rest.
Any hints about how can I create a ‘sempre crescendo’ dynamic mark?
You can add “sempre” as a prefix (or indeed a suffix if you prefer). It’s treated as a dynamic modifier, meaning if you wanted to show the crescendo as a hairpin, “sempre” would appear at the start by default but you could show it in the middle of the hairpin as well.
Thank you for your reply.
I admit that I do get frustrated with Dorico, things are almost never found intuitively and there is always a workaround that after getting the answer or reading the manual it does makes sense but it is a bit tedious that things do know work in a more intuitive way. The proof of this is that when I stop using a function for a while and I can’t recall it I can almost never find the way without having to consult the manual or the forum for the information. This happens to me with MaxMPS but never with any other music notation software.
Apologies for the rant, I know that this why this thread is for but I spent countless of hours to do the most basic function.
I’ve found this type of thing to be a bit laborious as well. I don’t know what programming would have to go into this, but it would be so time-saving if there is a way if popovers in a future version of Dorico could be more intelligent; that is, when one types “sempre cresc” Dorico will be able to surmise that you wanted “sempre” to be automatically treated as a prefix, without having to poke around in the Properties panel.
It occurs to me that sempre appears commonly enough that it’d be nice to be able to add it to the battery of dynamic modifiers: subito, possible, poco, molto, and so on. Is there a way to create our own modifiers, similar to how we can add our own playing techniques? If not, I think it’d be a great addition to v. 5!
No, there’s no way to add your own modifiers, but I agree that at some point this would be a good one to add.
I think sempre would be a sensible addition to the standard set. A feature for creating custom modifiers sounds like a much bigger request — but a nice feature someday!
Being able to add piu to a dynamic (like forte) would save me the task of opening Windows Character Map and trying to remember which direction the accent should go. 
If you type “piu f” in the popover, it puts the accent in for you.
Good to know. Thank you, Ben.
That will save me a lot of work.
This “replacement” does not seem to work for tempo.
The “Mac replacement” is a bit odd too;
I assume the Mac character-popup interface isn’t supported by Qt. One can always use the standard combinations, e.g. Option' for æ (in the U.S. keyboard layout).
Thanks! Option + ä on Swedish keyboard.
