Hi Richard,
perhaps this is simpler??
I Put a Dynamics Above Directive on the music staff and this moved the dynamics up - they default to down on the music stave. An edit to a second Dynamics Above directive to change DynamicsUp to dynamicsDown in 3 places puts them back down again.
But DynamicsDown does not work on dynamics inherited from the Marks stave.

with best wishes
Joe

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