Hi folks,
am I missing something here?
I’m trying to hide rests in the lower voice. I should be able to do so by enabling Start Voice (on beat 4) in the properties panel, right?
But Dorico doesn’t let me do it…
Thanks for your help!
Best
Jochen
Start Voice Hide rests.dorico.zip (811 KB)
Try selecting the rests themselves and choosing Edit>Remove Rests.
…and again: Lillie Harris for the win! Thanks a lot!
However… I’d like to understand why in this case I have to manually erase rests (and I just thought that I understood how Dorico is handling rests…)
In this case, it’s because you either input them as explicit rests with force duration or manually changed their vertical position using the Rest pos. property (which turns rests into explicit rests, so as to guarantee your edits are retained). If you select the minim/half note rest, you can see both the Rests and Force Duration icons in the toolbox are highlighted. Explicit rests don’t follow the Starts/Ends voice properties, because you’ve done something deliberate with them.
If you choose View > Note and Rest Colors > Implicit Rests, you can see that the quaver/eighth note rest in the upper voice becomes grey, whilst the lower rests do not. That tells you they’re explicit - you can then select them and press the Delete key on your keyboard to turn them back into implicit rests, at which point they will follow the Starts voice property should you activate it on that first note in the down-stem voice.
Thanks a lot for the detailed information. This makes a lot of sense.