🎬 This article is a transcription of one of the excellent tutorial videos posted to the official Dorico YouTube channel. It may be used as a companion study guide for the video tutorial, or as a stand-alone how-to.
Presented here in written form with the kind permission of its creator, Anthony Hughes, this tutorial is titled “Erase Background of Dynamics and Playing Techniques in Dorico Pro”…
Hello, I’m Anthony Hughes, and in this video I’d like to show you how to erase the background of dynamics, playing techniques and text items, here [as of] Dorico 2, the advanced music notation software from Steinberg.
Erase the background of dynamics, playing techniques and text
Sometimes when writing music you can end up in situations where space is getting a little tight and in order to achieve the desired position of a music item, it collides with staff lines or barlines.
In Dorico 2, when you select a dynamic, playing technique or text item, you can switch to Engrave mode and open the Properties panel, where you’ll find a new property to Erase background.
Padding
This works over all [dynamics, playing techniques or text] objects, so you can position items where you need them. Depending on the nature of the item you are working with, you may wish to modify how much of the background around the item is erased.
You can do this by enabling the Erasure padding properties and setting the left, right, top or bottom values accordingly.
Engraving Options
The default padding values can be set in Engraving Options, and are found on the Dynamics…
Playing Techniques…
and Text…
pages respectively.
… I’m Anthony Hughes, thanks for watching.
THIS TUTORIAL HAS BEEN TRANSLATED:
Wie man in Dorico Pro den Hintergrund von Dynamikanweisungen löscht | Einführung in Dorico 2
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