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by Fred G. Unn
06 Sep 2023, 18:39
Forum: Digital Notation Tools
Topic: Dorico development issue
Replies: 31
Views: 52937

Re: Dorico development issue

This... I need to learn how to do this. Importing Page Templates is seldom working well in Dorico, and it is messing up with Sets (Defaults and not)... I'm out the door to go teach, but there was a thread on this here: https://forums.steinberg.net/t/set-default-page-template/826234 If you give it a...
by Fred G. Unn
06 Sep 2023, 17:25
Forum: Digital Notation Tools
Topic: Dorico development issue
Replies: 31
Views: 52937

Re: Dorico development issue

To be sure I understand: is the doricolib something like Sibelius House Style, that you drop into Library Manager and import what you need? Or how do you create/apply them? If you look in the folder where Dorico is installed, most of the xml data files there can be modified with a doricolib file pl...
by Fred G. Unn
06 Sep 2023, 13:58
Forum: Digital Notation Tools
Topic: Dorico development issue
Replies: 31
Views: 52937

Re: Dorico development issue

Given the number of feature requests going up every day, they could have 500 developers and still be short-handed! You've done well to get something that you requested implemented. Haha, probably true! I think with Dorico 4 it reached a maturity level as a program where it can handle 99% percent of...
by Fred G. Unn
06 Sep 2023, 04:28
Forum: Digital Notation Tools
Topic: Dorico development issue
Replies: 31
Views: 52937

Re: Dorico development issue

it's important that you POST on the Dorico forum, very detailed (if possible with examples and images) descriptions of these requests. I kinda have. I mean, for one post 14 months ago I listed 20 requests with what I thought were very detailed descriptions, and almost the entire list pretty much st...
by Fred G. Unn
05 Sep 2023, 13:21
Forum: Digital Notation Tools
Topic: Dorico development issue
Replies: 31
Views: 52937

Re: Dorico development issue

First announce that the player has to take another instrument (with take-to-prends-prende, don't know in German), then again at the entry, BOLD and BIG (I even use boxed text!), the new instrument name, It's a minor issue with an easy workaround using Shift-X text, but unfortunately Dorico currentl...
by Fred G. Unn
02 Sep 2023, 00:36
Forum: Digital Notation Tools
Topic: Dorico development issue
Replies: 31
Views: 52937

Re: Dorico development issue

Yep, I wish the Dorico devs had gone with this ^^^ In the early aughts I was often playing the reading sessions for the BMI Composers Workshop at Local 802 in NYC. The "house band" was/is (it still exists) a band of professional jazz and Broadway musicians and we were all very strong reade...
by Fred G. Unn
01 Sep 2023, 13:22
Forum: Digital Notation Tools
Topic: Dorico development issue
Replies: 31
Views: 52937

Re: Dorico development issue

I've always (since my teens in the 1950s) labelled instrument changes twice. I am pretty sure that Arnstein did the same, David. This is definitely the standard for parts. I'm sort of ambivalent about whether the "to" indication needs to be in the score or not and have seen that handled b...
by Fred G. Unn
31 Aug 2023, 13:40
Forum: Digital Notation Tools
Topic: Dorico development issue
Replies: 31
Views: 52937

Re: Dorico development issue

... and more from actual music rather than just books on music notation. I agree of course, but the problem is you can find examples of almost anything in print. I know I've had to read some absolutely horribly engraved music before. With the notation books at least someone has given some amount of...
by Fred G. Unn
30 Aug 2023, 13:37
Forum: Digital Notation Tools
Topic: Dorico development issue
Replies: 31
Views: 52937

Re: Dorico development issue

Engraving "rules" evolve and adapt over time to suit the needs of performers and conductors. Generally speaking, they evolve in the direction of facilitating sightreading, and consistency is a key factor with this. Gould has quite a few prescriptions that are either regional or anachronist...
by Fred G. Unn
28 Aug 2023, 03:28
Forum: Notation Rules and Standards
Topic: PPP
Replies: 16
Views: 13414

Re: PPP

That's two separate references within a short time span (1789-1791) for ppp then. Clearly it must have been in use by some composers around that time. It would be interesting to see an actual musical example if someone could find one, but in terms of answering the original question of "approxim...