Lengthening/Shortening gaps and dashes in gradual tempo changes

Dorico Pro Help
Product
Dorico Pro
Version
5.1
Language
English
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You can change the length of dashes and the gaps between dashes in individual gradual tempo changes, 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.
Note

These steps only apply to gradual tempo changes with dashed lines.

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 gradual tempo changes with dashed lines whose dash length you want to change.
  2. In the Properties panel, activate the following properties, individually or together, in the Tempo group:

    • Line dash length

    • Line dash gap

  3. Change the values in the value fields.

Result

Increasing Line dash length makes dashes in gradual tempo changes longer, decreasing the value makes dashes shorter.

Increasing Line dash gap makes gaps between dashes in gradual tempo change lines longer, decreasing the value makes gaps shorter.

If the property scope was set to Locally, this change only takes effect in the current layout and frame chain.

Tip

You can change the default dash length for all dashed gradual tempo changes project-wide in Engraving Options > Tempo > Gradual Changes > Advanced Options.

For example, you can change the default dash length for dashed lines following text and dashed lines between hyphenated text separately.