I’m working on a sextet where vertical space is very valuable in the full score. Dorico has this great feature where you can locally hide items so they appear in the parts (or other scores), but for example not in the full score, and automatically adjusts the spacing. What completely baffles me is why Dorico allows me to this with some items (like playing techniques), and not others (like dynamics or slurs *edit: gradual dynamics). It’s terribly annoying to have to move those items outside of the page, or to make them 100% transparant (the spacing doesn’t adjust then), or to change them to 1% scaling (which then still prints some small streaks). Am I missing something?
Thank you for the help, though I was aware. I meant gradual dynamics and had to specify that.
Sorry, don’t know if that’s possible
Surely whoever reads the score and the part needs to know that there’s a gradual dynamic change at that point?
If you just want it for playback, you can draw in the gradual line in the Key Editor.
While I agree with you, why wouldn’t that be necessary for immediate dynamic changes?
(Just trying to learn things)
Well, I expect a program to allow me to do what I want, without having to argue if that’s a good idea or not.
Sometimes I just want to have an extra symbol in the part that is not in the score. Sometimes a musician requests last minute a full score with big enough staves to perform from, and I want to hide some redundant dynamics (for example: when everyone plays the same gradual dynamics), to quickly save some vertical space.
I don’t think we’re trying to argue with you.
But sometimes the “Why” behind a question gives an idea how to achieve the wanted solution in another way.