I’m a fairly new user of Dorico (coming from Sibelius) and I’m enjoying learning this software. Have been making very frequent use of the manual and am able to find out how to do most of what I need.
I’ve run into a relatively simple thing that I can’t seem to find in the manual but imagine is pretty easy to do:
I have an alto line with a very low note that has an optional pitch an octave above. I’ve got both notes in the alto part but as a chord. How can I make the optional note have a smaller notehead and/or parentheses around it to indicate it is optional.
There are so many layout and other options in the program (which is great!) but sometimes it’s hard to find the tool you need.
Select the note you want smaller, open the Properties panel at the bottom, tick the Scale button at the left, and select “Cue” for a smaller size (I think the default is 75%). Alternately, you could select Custom Scale if you want to define the exact scale.
Thank you! I didn’t realize I could tick any of those properties. I thought since they were “greyed” out they weren’t available but now I realize they’re just turned “off.”