I’m working on a new edition of Helena Munktell’s Suite dalécarlienne and she made liberal use of multiple simultaneous time signatures in order to avoid writing gobs and gobs of tuplets. While I could have just written the tuplets out because this is a computer and not handwritten manuscript, I chose to be faithful to the original and I’m now paying the price a bit for that decision. I’ve worked through some oddities with multirests, but I’ve hit upon a really strange behavior in engrave mode when trying to get parts formatted and paginated nicely.
Specifically, if I have “faked” a time signature using the typical procedure of making a local time signature with pickups and then making a hidden tuplet in that measure to ensure the right number of notes display, I run into problems where Dorico all but demands to break measures in the middle. See the following example, bar 44:
I can work around this by adding a bunch of system breaks in, and I’ve done this in other parts, but in this part, doing that creates some very sparse systems that look terrible because there’s not enough music in them. See the following, about the only way I could get the barlines to actually land on the ends of systems, but it’s really sparse as a result:
Any ideas here?
