In the attached example I would like not to split the 16th-note beam under the 32nd-note rest. (Bärenreiter house style). The documentation suggests that by selecting the note after the beam (as in the example) and turning on the split beam switch in the properties panel I will have a choice of the beam to begin the split. Doing this, however, has no effect, whether I select the note or the rest.
Try with this Notation Option:
You could have to apply Reset Beaming for this Option to be efficient, if you have already tried to change the beaming.
Many thanks for your suggestion, Charles; I did reset the beaming and tried all three options in that panel, resetting each time. There was no change in the notation at all.
This piece is imported from an XML file and those sometimes behave unexpectedly; but when I re-entered the passage manually there was still no difference from the pasted example.
Interestingly, my xml file was generated by Sibelius, in which the beaming is what I want; my whole process was Scanned PDF (beaming as desired), PhotoScore (beaming as desired)->Sibelius (beaming as desired)->XML->Dorico (beaming changed). Dorico just doesn’t seem to want to preserve that 16th-note beam, no matter what the settings.
Thinking it through more thoroughly, I can see a rationale for what Dorico is doing; the 32nd rest goes with the ensuing 32nd note as a pair, so it could be argued that having it over a 16th-note beam doesn’t actually make sense. Perhaps this is what’s going on. On the other hand, in that case preserving the 8th-note beam also doesn’t make sense.
I wish I could choose, and the choices in the split beam popup would seem to say that I could choose; but they don’t seem to have any effect at all. Could this be a bug? Lily? Daniel?
Interesting… And strange, here it works:
I guess you’ve checked that the right flow was selected in the right hand column, in case you have several?
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Oh, hell. No, I didn’t have the right flow selected. Grr. Now it works fine.
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