Greetings - new Dorico user here, arriving from 27 years using Finale. I’m hoping someone can assist with an issue I cannot find in either the Dorico documentation or these forums.
I managed to add some slash regions to a new Dorico score (not converted via XML). However, I subsequently needed to adjust the underlying notation and, in the process, managed to strand a slash region in the middle of measure 4.
The measure 1-3 region in the attached image can be selected and operated upon; however, I cannot select the green region in measure 4. Also, the slash marks in that region are gone.
I’ve now spent a couple of hours trying to get rid of this region without deleting the underlying notes, including copying and pasting using an exclude filter set to exclude slash regions. I’m completely stumped. Any assistance will be very much appreciated.
Apologies - I was hoping the “Processing” note on the file had resolved. I just re-uploaded it to the original post, and was able to pull it back down myself, so it should be resolved.
In answer to your other question; I have closed/reopened the Dorico file, shut down/restarted Dorico, and also power-cycled the computer, with no improvement after any of those steps.
My apologies - I was hoping the “Processing” note on the file had resolved. I just re-uploaded it to the original post, and was able to pull it back down myself, so it should be resolved. Thank you!
Another way of doing what @DanielMuzMurray described is to select the beam of the notes in that bar, press F to flip their stem direction, and then select the handle for the errant slash region - you will need to click right at the very start of the region.
Thank you, @StevenJones01 and @DanielMuzMurray. Both solutions worked equally well; I’ll try to flag both of them as a solution in the post.
I really appreciate your super-quick responses!
It seems like I have some brain rewiring to do, as I’m finding Dorico counterintuitive on many levels. And my middle-aged grey matter isn’t absorbing shortcut keys the way it used to, which seems to be critical to efficiently using Dorico.
Give it to Daniel. His method is conceptually easier and involves less “mucking around” than in my first answer.
There have been MANY posts, usually by newcomers, regarding Dorico being counterintuitive. These posts have all boiled down to Dorico not working the way they had become accustomed to in other notation software. I was the same, coming from Sibelius. Like so many other newcomers to Dorico, I tried to just dive in and work it out for myself. I found out pretty quickly that, even though some things worked the way I was used to, a lot of it took a different approach and had different keyboard commands, menus, terminology, etc. Once I convinced myself to read at least some of the documentation and watch tutorials such as the First Steps video, my brain started to work the Dorico way. When I occasionally use Sibelius, generally only for exporting to musicxml so that I can open it in Dorico, I find it “counterintuitive” (ie I had become unaccustomed to its way of doing things) and SO frustrating. As for MuseScore - I only use that for cross-checking problematic musicxml files.
Thank you both, again, both for your solutions and experience. @StevenJones01, per your suggestion, I’ve switched the solution over to @DanielMuzMurray; the modified version of Daniel’s solution that you proposed is the one I went with (I tried all on the example snippet before committing on my actual piece).
To be fair, I always found Finale counterintuitive and almost combative, and MuseScore only slightly less so, so it’s probably an uphill battle for any notation software with me. The weird thing is that my day gig has me responsible for a large software platform, so I’m fairly in tune with software design and contemporary UI. There’s something about translating my scoring workflow to the input requirements of a technical platform that just doesn’t sync. I suspect it’s my age showing, or maybe pre-computer music school, as I still gravitate to pencil and paper while sitting at a piano.
Anyway, thank you both again. I’m off to watch more Dorico videos and see if I can successfully get this small score constructed by its deadline.
