Hi,
I know, it’s a mistake. But it’s a mistake, the one I want to write down.
I would like to write a 2/2 time signature, shown note as cut time (¢), but as common time (C).
Can this be done? Which workaround would you use?
Paolo
Do a 4/4 ,2 pickup bar, then do 2/2 and hide the sig in the next bar.
I wouldn’t add the “comma 2” to the 4/4 if you wanted a full faux-2/2 (or 4/4) measure, but I agree with the approach of using 4/4 for a single measure to force the common time notation and then continuing with a hidden 2/2 time signature.
Doh! Counting crisis!
Thank you for the hints!
However, my mistaken time signature should be right at the beginning, otherwise it would have been too easy 
Paolo
You want the beaming to reflect 2/2, but want the meter to display as “C”? In Engrave/Music Symbols/Category: Time Signatures/Cut Time, just replace the Cut time symbol with the C symbol. Select the 2/2 in the music then in the Properties panel select the Common/Cut common checkbox. The C will then display for 2/2.
Eh, I can’t. The cut time is already taken, because it is used correctly in another point of the score!
But I think the best solution is to have the mistaken common time in the first bar, and then hide the correct 2/2 time signature starting from the second one. A single wrong bar is better than many.
Paolo
Surely c,[1+1]/2 works?
I don’t know. What I see is that the ‘C’ is shown, but I can’t seem to see beam grouping to be shown as 1+1/2.
This is not very clear to me: but isn’t everything after a comma considered a pickup bar?
Paolo
While experimenting, I could see that the score is mixing common and cut time in beaming:
It makes sense from a legibility point of view. The pulse remains ‘in two’, but the melody flow remains ‘in four’.
Paolo