Inputting string indicators outside the staff with the popover - Dorico Pro - 5.1

Dorico Pro Help
Product
Dorico Pro
Version
5.1
ft:locale
en-US
Document type
Webhelp
ft:openMode
fluidtopics

You can input string indicators outside the staff using the playing techniques popover, both during note input and by adding them to existing music.

Procedure

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

    • Start note input.

    • Select an item on each staff at the rhythmic position where you want to input a string indicator outside the staff.

      Note

      If you want to input a string indicator with a duration line, select items that span the required duration.

  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 Popovers button, then Playing Techniques Playing Techniques button.

  4. Enter the appropriate entry for the string indicator you want into the popover.

    For example, enter string1 for just a string 1 indicator or string3-> for a string 3 indicator with duration.

  5. Press Return to close the popover.
  6. Optional: During note input, to extend open-ended string indicators, such as string3->, advance the caret by the currently selected note duration in any of the following ways:

    • Press Space.

    • In the Keyboard, Fretboard, or Drum Pads panel toolbar, click Advance Caret Advance Caret button.

    Open-ended string indicators also extend automatically as you continue inputting notes.

    Note

    Open-ended string indicators are not created unless you advance the caret either manually or by inputting notes, because this defines their duration.

  7. Optional: During note input, to stop open-ended string indicators, open the playing techniques popover again, then enter ? into the popover.

    This leaves the current string indicator with a duration line. You can also enter another string indicator into the popover, but this joins the current string indicator to the following one with a continuation line rather than a duration line, which is a less common notation.

Result

The specified string indicators are input. They are considered voice-specific by default, meaning they only apply to the voice indicated by the caret indicator during step input or the selected voice when adding string indicators to existing notes. They are automatically placed above the staff for up-stem voices and below the staff for down-stem voices.

During note input, string indicators are input at the caret position on all staves across which the caret extends. If you included an open-ended string indicator with duration, it extends automatically when you advance the caret or input notes.

String indicators added to existing music are input at the rhythmic position of, or span the duration of, either only notes or any items on each selected staff, according to your item input position setting. String indicators with duration show a duration line, which is dashed with a hook cap end by default.

After Completing This Task

  • If you input string indicators without duration but want to show dashed duration lines, you can lengthen them.

  • You can change the staff-relative placement of string indicators.