In a very pleasant development, I’m delighted to say that at least some documentation for this new version of Dorico is available today (English). As many of you will appreciate, the fast pace of development meant not everything could be documented ready for release, and not all screenshots have been updated, so bear with me whilst the switchover gets done. However, a decent number of the major features are and are available here:
You can also reach the manuals by following the options directly from the steinberg.help website
I hope this is useful as you start to explore the amazing new features added to Dorico by my fabulous colleagues, and I will keep you posted as to when updates are made to the documentation.
(Pro tip: there is now a New features list at the start of the manual, which points you towards the biggest updates in Dorico 3)
Hi Lillie, not sure if this is the right place to mention this, but there’s a tiny typo in the Version History document (downloaded with the Steinberg Download Assistant) on page 42: “drop-dpwn”.
Cheers on the Dorico 3 release though!
The Dorico 2.x documentation in German, French, Spanish and Italian is tantalisingly close to release (we’ve been working with additional translators to try to accelerate the timeline) but not quite. That will be published as soon as possible. The Dorico 3 documentation is not yet complete in English, but the localised versions will follow as soon as is practical after Lillie has made some more headway on the English documentation.
Lillie did say in her initial post in this thread:
…and not all screenshots have been updated…
Please bear with us while the documentation is completed. The Version History provides complete documentation for all of the new features and changes brought to Dorico 3 in the meantime.
Dorico concepts - thanks to this coming up either here or in the facebook group recently, I realised there was some scope for additions & improvements in this early chapter - do read through the updated ‘children’ of this linked topic!
Page formatting (Pro manual) - what was previously “Page layouts” within Engrave mode now has its own chapter, now called “page formatting” (as after deliberation I realised “page layouts” could be construed as another type of layout, which was not what I meant). This new chapter contains an updated introduction, which hopefully serves as a better pointer for where to go next, and an initial list of tasks: these should get you most of the way to correctly/well-formatted layouts. After these tasks are subsections for reference, with further information and more detailed tasks, like moving individual staves/notes in Engrave mode. (In the Elements manual, this is still in the “Layout and formatting” chapter but is also called “Page formatting”)
In typical fashion, going through the manual to get all the links together has given me a few ideas for more small improvements, which I will endeavour to publish lickity-spit. Hopefully along with the remaining bits of v3 that need documentation/updating! Ever onwards, folks
Are these updated PDF manuals available via the SDA, or does one need to download the manuals from the Steinberg site?
(I didn’t see a link for the complete revised manuals in Lillie’s post.)
