Trying to increase the size of some noteheads

Dorico
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I’m looking for a good way to get larger noteheads on some notes. I do this to show how the melody weaves between parts.

I tried clicking on a note while in Write mode and going into the bottom panel and increasing the custom scale. That also increased the length of the stem and flag. I suspect it may also increase the size of an accidental before the note, though I don’t have any accidentals in this piece to demonstrate. Though this is far from ideal I suppose it could work.

I tried Notehead Sets. I chose the default set (which I found isn’t the default) and increased the size of the solid black head. Then I chose that enlarged notehead for two adjacent notes that had stems in opposite directions. Downstem looks about how I want it. Upstem doesn’t – the stem is more towards the middle of the head rather than at the right edge.

A picture would help.

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The bottom staff shows the two noteheads enlarged through notehead sets. The top staff shows a note enlarged through the custom scale with the same note in the next measure not enlarged.

Did I use these methods as intended? Is there a way to make the notehead sets work? Is there a different method I should use instead?

Thanks for all the help

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The thing to be aware of when editing noteheads, is the stem attachment points: they won’t move automatically, so to ensure stems still attach at the edge of the notehead, you must also move the attachment points (on the Attachments tab at the bottom of the editor).

Using noteheads is more “robust”; using the scale size property gives you the flexibility to have the notehead larger in some layouts but not others.

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This got me what I want. Thank you.

Is there a way to change the notehead of the first note of a tie and not the second or later notes?