Hi all,
I’ve seen a few similar topics to this but none seem to cover this particular problem of mine. For some reason the barlines on some instruments on the full score have disappeared and I cant find a way of putting them back in (attached screenshot example for Tom Tom, Xylophone and Glocks). They are still there on the individual parts though…
Does anyone know why this could be, and how I can put them back?
Thanks
Welcome to the forum, @brewick. If you make sure signposts are visible by switching off View > Signposts > Hide Signposts, do you see any signposts appearing anywhere in the percussion staves? My guess is that you have some hidden time signatures somewhere specific to the percussion staves that are causing the barlines to be hidden.
It will be easier for us to diagnose if you can attach your project here. Please see this thread:
Hi, thanks very much for your message - I unhid the barline signposts and saw some red flag saying something like (q, 1+1+1) - I deleted that then found this weird bracket (attached screenshot) which I deleted…now it’s fine! Tried to upload the Dorico file but couldnt get it under 4MB…Anyways, all sorted now - thanks again for your help!!
Doug
hi ! i’m having the same issue . i’ve checked my signposts (see attached) and the issue persists . what am i missing ?
cheers,
holly
oops - here’s the screenshot 
From your attached screenshot is difficult to see much because the menu is covering most of the score, and the score is cut out on the left etc.
Please attach the dorico file to be able to see what is going on.
I have similar problem, just one of my instrument’s staff have no Barlines anymore…I checked, hide signpost didn’t checked…
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Check to see if you have a local, unmeasured time signature hidden.
Thank You, but how to check that?
Show signposts in the View menu.
Try to find a time signature for the staff in question (or a signpost indicating a hidden time signature) and delete it.
If that wipes out other time signatures or bar lines, CTRL/CMD + Z to undo, but otherwise see if bar lines have been restored.
I had that just now. All the bars line in all players disappeared. I solved it by Select All (ctrl-A) and re-selected the time signature (it was CUT time, so I selected 2/2, bars came back, thec CUT time to restore the original with bars lines.
Well I have the same problem (Dorico 5.1, Mac running 12.6.1) : several staves are missing barlines starting on a pages and through the end of the block. I must have hit a wrong key combination at some point…
But his topic does not really solve the issue.
I tried closing and reopening the project but no change.
I tried to unhid Signposts (I guess it is pancarrte in French), but nothing appears.
It’s a freaking mess and after 5 weeks of daily work on this project and learning Dorico I’m again wondering if I made the right choice choosing this software…
Can you post your score here so we can look at it?
A clue might be found in Doug’s post with the screen shot including the ‘weird bracket’. I’ve occasionally encountered problems when re-ordering staves to positions which ‘violate’ Dorico’s algorithm for displaying instrument families. For me, deleting and recreating the brackets solved any display problems.
Hurrah ! Thanks ! Indeed there was a strange bracket on one page. Once i removed it everything went back to normal. I yet have to learn how to manage bracket, but that one was probably created by mistyping (now that I know by heart many commands I use them a lot but still get confused or have old reflexes - sometimes nothing happens, but sometimes it does something unwanted and I can’t always see it).
I found that it’s actually a bug. When I change the display of a frame to show an empty staff it sometimes create a strange bracket between some other staves, which results most of the time but not always in suppressing the barlines on some intruments of that page and sometimes following pages too.
It would be a great step forward to be able to see the signposts. The brackets and braces ones are brown. When they are showing, you just need to delete it to recover the default behavior (if there is none before) or the same behavior as the bars prior to that deleted signpost.
That would be as easy as opening the view menu (Affichage)>Signposts (Pancartes)>Show signposts (and make sure they are ticked in the list below)
Hope it helps!
