Some text elements that were hidden in the Write mode are visible again in the Engraving mode

This issue is more for the development team than for ordinary forum participants, although I welcome any help from anyone, including because the problem may lie in my ignorance.

So the problem is as follows. In Write mode, I hid a bunch of text elements (mostly playing techniques). When I switched to Engraving mode, I noticed that some text elements (playing techniques) that were hidden in Write mode became visible again.
This made me quite nervous, as I had to look for where else hidden text elements could become visible. And there weren’t a couple of them, or three or four.

I have no idea why this is happening. I specifically hide such text elements in order to specify things like sim., ad lib., and the like instead.
As a result, I have to hide the text elements twice. It takes time and is quite annoying.

As an example, I have attached the .dorico file (see here) so that you can personally look at it.
Here are some text elements that are hidden in Write mode, but visible in
Engraving mode:

  • Flow “Оле-Лукойе и город (начало)”; bar 31; Clarinet and Bassoon parts; text element “stacc.” (playing technique)
  • Flow “Оле-Лукойе и город (начало)”; bar 103; Violin Ⅰ part; text element “stacc.” (playing technique)
  • Flow “Замок разбойников”; bar 1; Trumpets part; text element “open” (playing technique)[1]
  • Flow “Встреча детей во дворце”; bar 76; Horns 1/2 part; text element “nat.” (playing technique)

Why is this happening? What needs to be done to prevent this from happening?

For the development team:
I do not know how often you follow every topic discussed here on the forum (if you follow it at all) and how seriously you take everything that people write about here, but if there is some more appropriate place where a person will definitely be heard and his question will be considered and taken into account. please let me know about it.
In my opinion, what I described above is a pretty annoying problem, so it should not be ignored.

Thank you for your attention and patience)


  1. Please note that “open” is indicated there twice - at the top and bottom of the stave, although I have established in the notation options that such things can only be indicated in one place. This is another issue that I would also like to look into. ↩︎

I can assure you that this is the one forum most closely monitored by the respective dev team that I have ever come across. EDIT: Just keep in mind that the dev team is considerably smaller in numbers than that of software addressing a much larger user base (like image editing software for example) and thus cannot be present here 24/7. But it does feel like they do read virtually everything that is posted here.

There was a thread about this a little while back. Something about having to re-hide them in engrave mode–by design, if I remember correctly.