8/4 divided into 'dotted-lined-in-between-measures' of 3+3+2

Dorico
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Anyone knows if this is possible? And if possible, how to do this?

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I don’t know how to do this automatically, but adding dotted barlines should be as easy as invoking the shift-b popover and write : (colon)

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The thing is that it should remain 1 measure but divided into three ‘fake’ measures so to speak.

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That’s definitely possible; but I would like to have a more ‘general’ solution for this :slight_smile:

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You mean like SHIFT+M 3/4|3/4|2/4 with the individual time sigs separated with the pipe character? You’d probably want to hide the unwieldy additive time signature after starting with an initial 8/4 measure that you would divide manually.

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Well, that’s half the solution… :slight_smile:

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What would be the other half?

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My solution gives you “exactly that”, but is not automatic. Inputting manually a barline in Dorico doesn’t change the time signature, while inputting a time signature does change the barlines :wink:

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And Marc’s solution is exactly what you need for the first measure (one measure) before you apply my solution and hide the new (convoluted) additive time signature.

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Well, all together this combined solution is working well! Thanks for your advice!!