Changing the vertical position of ornaments

Dorico Pro Help

Product
Dorico Pro
Version
5.1
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en-US
Document type
Webhelp
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fluidtopics

By default, ornaments are positioned outside of slurs, octave lines, tuplets, and articulations at the ends of slurs. You can change the vertical position of individual ornaments relative to these notations. You can do this for the current layout and frame chain only, or for all layouts and frame chains.

Prerequisite

  • The lower zone is shown.

  • Properties is selected in the lower zone toolbar.

  • Graphic Editing Graphic Editing button is selected in the Engrave toolbox.

  • You have chosen the appropriate property scope for local properties.

Procedure

  1. In Engrave mode, select the ornaments whose vertical position you want to change.
    Note

    You must select either only ornaments or only trills.

  2. In the Properties panel, activate Slur-relative position in the corresponding group for the selected ornaments:
    • Ornaments

    • Trills

  3. Choose one of the following options:
    • Inside

    • Outside

Result

The selected ornaments are positioned either inside or outside of slurs, octave lines, tuplets, and articulations at the ends of slurs. If the property scope was set to Locally, this change only takes effect in the current layout and frame chain.