Grace notes
Grace notes are notes without a fixed duration, which are intended to be played quickly. They are scaled-down versions of normal notes, and are commonly shown with a slash through their stem.
Grace notes with slashed stems are known as acciaccaturas and are often played very fast. Grace notes without slashed stems are known as appoggiaturas and are often played slower than acciaccaturas.
In Baroque music, appoggiaturas are often understood to last for a specific duration, based on the rhythmic value of the notehead to which they are attached and the meter.
Grace notes do not take up space rhythmically, as they are intended to be fitted into the space before the notehead to which they are attached, which is the notehead immediately to their right.
There can be multiple grace notes before a notehead. If there are two or more grace notes attached to the same notehead, and they have a rhythmic value that shows a flag on the stem, such as eighth notes (quavers) and 16th notes (semiquavers), they can be beamed together.
In Dorico, grace notes are scaled to 3/5 the size of a normal notehead by default.
You can add notations, such as slurs and articulations, to grace notes in the same ways as to normal notes, and you can transpose grace notes after they have been input.