Automatic beaming?

Dorico
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I am a newbie at Dorico, forgive me if my questions are too basic. – I created the following line with a lot of fiddling around, and I ask myself how my intended beaming could be produced automatically. In particular: how can I produce the 5/16-beaming in the left hand (a dotted 8th beamed & tied to a following 8th)? If I enter (5+4)/16 into the meter-popover I get a quarter note tied to a 16th, if I enter (3+2+4)/16 I get the correct values, but unbeamed.
Apart from that: why is there a gap at the end of some measures? It appears together with the tie (no gap without tie!)
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And 2 more questions:

  1. If I continue with a dotted 16th, how can I create it? If I add a dot to the existing (tied) 16th (last note) it will be applied to the whole value of the f# (which is an 8th note).
  2. How can I create a tempo marking “Quarter = 40-44”?

Thank you for your support!

2

Set a time signature of [5+4]/16 [press RETURN] and then go to your lower staff and override that with [3+2+4]/16 but press ALT+RETURN to apply that time sig only to that staff.

3

For lengthening/shortening notes, see here (Dorico sees tied notes as a single note overall, so instead of thinking to add a rhythm dot to the last note in a tie, you lengthen the note overall).

For q=40-44 tempo marks see here (although I think if you enter “q=40-44” directly into the tempo popover it should be input correctly anyway).

4

Great, thank you! What about the gaps caused by ties?

5

Is there other material at that rhythmic location in other staves?

6

Thank you, I got it!

7

It looks like there was a wrong setting in the “Notensatz”-options - after resetting it the gap disappeared.