Comments

Comments allow you to add notes or instructions at precise positions in your project without inputting them into the music or affecting the engraving. They are considered annotations in Dorico Elements, meaning they are not printed by default.

Comments exist outside of the music, so do not affect note spacing, vertical spacing, or casting off. However, you can attach them to specific items and staves in order to be precise about the subject of each comment.

Figure: A passage with comments and replies

By default, comments are shown in the music area. They appear as speech bubble symbols as close as possible to their attached position. Comments that are replies are stacked vertically below the original comment.

All comments in the current flow are listed in the Comments panel in Write mode. Clicking a comment, either in the Comments panel or in the music area, automatically moves the view to bring that rhythmic position into focus.

In addition to its content, each comment identifies the following:

• Author of the comment, based either on the current user account or a custom name.

  On macOS, the user account name uses the long account name; on Windows, it uses the full name associated with the account. If Dorico Elements cannot determine your account name, a dialog appears into which you can add the names you want to use for comments. You can also change these names in Preferences.

• Date the comment was added

• Instrument to which the comment applies

• Bars to which the comment applies

You can hide/show comments at any time and you can choose to include them, alongside other view options, when printing/exporting layouts.