2/4 against 6/8

[Janus]

@jim5

But if the entire player is in 6/8 while the other players are in 2/4 this would mean fussing with every single bar. That’s not optimal.

Welcome to the forum.

6/8 against a general 2/4 is really quite straightforward.

• In the first bar use shift-M 6/8,4 (alt-enter) - this creates the independent time signature and keeps the bar length at 4 quavers.
• In the second bar shift-M 2/4 (enter) - returns everyone to the global time signature. You then hide it using properties.
• Now you just enter all the notes in the 6/8 part using tuplets. (There are engraving options to automatically hide the tuplet numbers and brackets for repeated tuplets).