Enabling/Disabling slur collision avoidance

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Dorico Pro
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5.1
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You can allow or prevent individual slurs from automatically adjusting to avoid collisions, independently of your project-wide settings. 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 slurs whose collision avoidance you want to enable/disable.
  2. In the Properties panel, activate/deactivate Avoid collisions in the Slurs group.
  3. Activate/Deactivate the corresponding checkbox.

Result

The selected slurs avoid collisions when the checkbox is activated, and do not avoid collisions when the checkbox is deactivated. If the property scope was set to Locally, this change only takes effect in the current layout and frame chain.

When the property is deactivated, slurs follow your project-wide setting for slur collision avoidance.

Tip

You can enable/disable slur collision avoidance for all slurs and cross-staff slurs project-wide, independently of each other, in Engraving Options > Slurs > Avoiding Collisions.

You can also customize the default settings for the shape and endpoint positions of slurs that are avoiding collisions in this section.

Example

Slur with collision avoidance enabled (default)
Slur with collision avoidance disabled