I have an arrangement for a song, and for the vocal score, I want the chords to appear on the top staff.
It seems like having chords over empty bars prevents multi measure rests from being created, but when I hide the chords individually I get 4 empty bars, but still not a multimeasure rests.
Worse than that - now I can’t figure out how to re-show the chords over the empty bars, since they are not there to be selected so I can change their properties back to “show”.
(Example in the picture - How can I get a MM rest over the first 4 bars here?)
Hi, Thanks!
Multi bar rests are switched on, and when I delete them for these bars I do get the multumeasure rest - so there shouldn’t be something else preventing them from being created - attached is the file, maybe you can shed some light on it… Many thanks! Multimeasure Rests Problem.dorico (680.5 KB)
It is strange - when I work on other layouts and come back to this one, it changes back and I have to toggle multi measure rests again. This is pretty annoying… Would be great if someone from Dorico can have a look.
@roeeli Indeed you have created a Custom Score layout, that behaves differently than a Part Layout (different default Layout Options*). Creating a Part Layout with those two players, all works as expected:
@roeeli
As an explanation:
(*) Here the Layout Option that cause this discrepancy:
Also I edited your Part First Page template, that had issues with the frames: