I’m working on a piece in 4/4 but one bar thinks it is in 3/4. This is bar 16:
What is shown as the first beat of 17 is supposed to be the 4th beat of 16.
This is the end of a verse that has a pickup beat, though when I wrote it out I wrote that pickup at the end of a full 4 beat bar. I’ve since added the pickup bar and adjusted the piece, though this bar was short even before the pickup was added.
How do I identify (what do I click on) to see and change what this bar thinks it is?
In the View menu, show signposts. You’ll see a red flag there. Select it and delete it, and it should resolve.
When I deleted it, the signpost disappeared, then quickly reappeared. Bars 16 and 17 did not change.
Please post a screenshot; I’m just guessing.
Delete that one too.
That was the only one. Are you implying there should have been a signpost at 16? There wasn’t and isn’t.
Clarification: The signpost I tried to delete and that reappeared was the one bar 17.
Try deleting the barline at the start of bar 17. If you then get a signpost at the start of bar 16, delete that.
If none of this works – can you upload your project? It’s much easier to solve issue like this with the project in hand.
Ah. That did it. I now have a nice 4-beat bar 16 and the rest of the music adjusted nicely. Can you tell how the situation developed and how I can keep it from happening?
I was able to reproduce your situation by selecting the 4th beat in a bar, opening the Bars popover with Shift+B, typing | and hitting enter. I don’t know if these were the steps you followed; there are other ways to get there.
Thanks for the solution and for responding again.
I hadn’t used a popover to modify bar 16 and I don’t recall doing anything to give bar 16 three beats.
Was it an XML import?
Jesper
No. It was all created within Dorico.
Hmm…
Jesper
