System text to the right of rehearsal marks

Dorico
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I’m setting up a new template and have a ton of these text cues per file, with potentially hundreds of files. It’s a rehearsal mark and system text with a dedicated paragraph style.

How can I get these to sit side-by-side like rehearsal marks do with tempo marks? I don’t relish the thought of manually moving these text items thousands of times…

I thought about moving the attachment point of the text to the right, but that seems like a solution looking for a problem.

Cross-posted to FB.

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Could you just use a Tempo mark with custom text (and supress its playback)?

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I had thought about that, but

  1. It’s a workaround, which makes me nervous with a project of this size
  2. How would I manage two different paragraph styles, one bold for tempos and one italics for text cues?
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I suppose at least I could disable collision avoidance for this paragraph style and give it an indent…

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Ok, I have a solution I’m very happy with. I’m finding there are three use cases for me:

  1. Text cue flush with barline, or mostly flush
  2. Text cue to the right of rehearsal mark
  3. text cue to the right of rehearsal mark with a time signature

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These three situations call for three paragraph styles:

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Playing around with horizontal offsets and turning off collision avoidance, I found these three settings:

  1. text flush with barline: -2 spaces
  2. text with rehearsal mark: 3 spaces
  3. text with rehearsal mark and meter: 7/8 space

It seems this is the deal situation for these text elements with no manual adjustment required! I’m going to go ahead and mark this as solved in case it’s helpful to someone else.

Update: well, it doesn’t cover every use case, for two reasons: there are a variety of factors that affect horizontal positioning, like a clef or key signature change, and it doesn’t seem practical to try and address every use. Also, vertical positioning of the text item sometimes needs to be higher because of colliding, and it’s then not aligned with the rehearsal mark. But this is still better than before.

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