Typical Dorico workflows

[DanielMuzMurray]

I have a few friends trying out Dorico and I’m trying to put together a list of tasks for them to throughout the process of writing/engraving.

Something like:

• Input music
• Check condensing
• Note spacing of parts
• etc…

The goal is to not have to go back to fix something further up the list.

Does anyone have any personal preferences on where they place certain tasks in the food chain?

[DanielMuzMurray]

This is from another thread created in 2019:

@Andre1

Just wondering, but what workflows are you using when doing engraving jobs? It depends of course on the kind of jobs, but say engraving a handwritten job from a client or starting from a Sibelius file for example? I noticed that I often just keep on checking if everything looks good, but because I don’t really have a system I tend to go back and do the same check twice.

At the moment I am extracting parts from a full orchestral score that I imported as Sibelius-XML. I wrote some steps down as a guide for now:

• Proofread a part between Dorico and the original Sibelius full score file that was send to me to be sure I didn’t miss any text objects etc.
• Paginate the pages to find a good balance between readability, same amount of staves on all pages and page turns.
• Check if there are cues needed (I have set the cue rest-detector to 20 seconds).
• Now, with the layout set, I check every system and align the dynamics.
• A last part check to see if all objects (slurs, stem directions etc look good).
• In print mode, I do a final check as in the previous step.

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