Show voice also in multiple note selection

Dorico
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If a single note is selected, the status bar shows the voice:
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But if multiple notes are selected, the status bar does not show the voice, even if all notes are in the same voice:
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Yes. And…?

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Well, just as it is useful to know what voice a single note is in, it is equally useful to know what voice multiple notes are in. So the feature request is as as per the title: “Show voice also in multiple note selection.”

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The ‘multiple selection’ status is shown for any multiple selection - not just notes. It could be (eg) a note and a dynamic, or multiple text items, multiple chords etc.

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Yes. And…?

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Once it decides there is a multiple selection, I’d guess it’s quite hard to display further details.

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…especially when some objects belong to voices and others don’t.

Understandable, though, why you’d want multiple notes to display voice info, @Pete_the_Musician. But I take @Janus’s point to be that Dorico (currently) “jumps off the cliff” as soon as more than one object is selected, rather than waiting until something non-voice-specific is.

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A big related issue here, is how Dorico considers notes and grace notes as two different entities that have nothing to do with each other!
Try to select a run of grace-note + note and see how the Properties Panel is empty!
You need to filter for just notes—which you cannot, because it selects grace-notes as well—or use the filter to deselect grace notes. Quite convoluted.

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I agree with all of the above generally. I find I frequently have to deselect in order to select just one note to double-check the voice (and then reselect, or at least Undo to get my desired selection back). Voice colors do not help with already-selected notes.

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Some time ago I made the same request:

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