Adding retakes with the popover - Dorico Elements - 6.1

Dorico Elements Help
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Dorico Elements
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6.1
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You can add retakes to sustain pedal lines using the playing techniques popover, both during note input and by adding them to existing music.
Note

You cannot add retakes to sostenuto or una corda pedal lines. Retakes only appear for sustain pedal lines with the Line continuation type.

Prerequisite

You have input a sustain pedal line.

Procedure
  1. In Write mode, do one of the following:

    • Start note input.

    • Select an item on each staff and at each rhythmic position where you want to input retakes.

  2. Optional: During note input, if you want to input notes and notations onto multiple staves, extend the caret to those staves.
  3. Open the playing techniques popover in any of the following ways:

    • Press Shift-P.

    • In the Notations toolbox, click Popovers , then Playing Techniques .

  4. Enter ^ or retake into the popover.
  5. Press Return to close the popover.
Result

During note input, retakes are input at the caret position on all staves across which the caret extends.

Outside of note input, retakes are input at each selected rhythmic position on each selected staff.

Tip

You can also input retakes by selecting notes within the ranges of sustain pedal lines and choosing Editand thenNotationsand thenPedal Linesand thenAdd Retake. You can also choose this option from the context menu.

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