I’m transitioning from Sibelius to Dorico Pro. It’s a struggle, but not unexpected.
I can’t seem to find a “Visual Reference Page” that names various items one might see on a page of music, with a reference to where the item is defined in the user manual. Does this exist for Dorico?
In Sibelius, there are half a dozen pages at the end of the manual that do this – I found it helpful.
The reason I’m asking for this arises from seeing signposts show up in a manuscript. Since they were (are) red, I knew they were some kind of error message, but did not know what they were called in Dorico. Having a picture of one with an attached name would have saved me a lot of time.
Chris
Welcome to the forum @Conti540 – Dorico’s manual doesn’t have a visual reference page, but it’s been requested before and might be something we add in the future.
For now, the manual has quite extensive metadata, so you can search quite freely: for example, the page about “Signposts” is the top result when searching for “red error message”.
Thank you. I would never have thought to search for “red error message.”
Dorico’s “Key Commands” page is a help – what would be better is if I could click on a key command and have it linked to the manual page where the command is fully explained.
I was using the phrasing you put into your post 
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Something like this?
Don’t worry: that’s not an error (necessarily) – it’s just a hidden time signature. (Usually a signature that’s been manually hidden, or just some kind of metre value that isn’t visible, like a pickup bar.)
Dorico uses ‘signposts’ to mark things that don’t show up in the notation itself.
Yes! I haven’t yet figured these codes out.
The first numbers are the meter. Then in parentheses it shows the beat (h = half, q = quarter, etc.) and the beats for beam grouping.
Since barlines are generated by meters in Dorico, there will be one of these signposts at any double barline or other special barline. Meters can also be hidden (in Properties), which also makes a signpost. You can hide or show these via the View menu.
Importing MusicXML often results in unintended explicit barlines. If the meter is the same, they can be deleted.
