Mysterious thing; suddenly chords are showing up also in multimeasure rests. They haven’t done so earlier and I can’t recall that I have changed any configuration in a while. How to get rid of them (yep I know I can hide them so I look for a more stable change)? Thanks //DT
What version of Dorico are you running? Your screenshot doesn’t look right - I would either expect the chord symbols to be hidden, or the multi-bar rest to be split if they were visible. Can you attach your project here?
This was definitely broken in 5.1.50. See Chord Symbols not breaking Multi-measure rests - #28 by dspreadbury
Not sure if it’s theoretically been fixed in 5.1.60
1 Like
From the Version history 5.1.60
“Edits that split a multi-bar rest no longer sometimes cause erroneous splits at chord symbol
positions.”
That’s why I’m not sure whether it’s been fixed: this is something that should be splitting multi-bar rests and isn’t, not something that was splitting multi-bar rests that shouldn’t be.
The problem @dan.h.tillberg has, I had also but it looks now it is gone. The thing is now that if you have chord symbols on multible bars rest the multimeasure rest is also gone. I only get it when I hide the chord symbols. In an way is this logical behaviour.
What Maarten describes is the intended behaviour - chord symbols were always intended to split multi-bar rests unless they were hidden, and it was a bug (fixed in 5.1.60) that they didn’t.
2 Likes
In that case could the Version History be clarified, please? It says the opposite of what it means.
1 Like
Ok sounds very logical and I like it.
Thanks all. Yep the behaviour has changed in version 5.1.60: either there are chords and these break the MM rest, or the chords are hidden and the MM rest looks as expected. One additional question though: since chords are system objects, they are of course added to all rhythm instruments as per the template setting (“Show for rhythm section instruments”). This is fine for the most, but if I have a section in the chart where e. g. the guitar should not play, I would of course like to have a MM rest in the guitar part for that section. I see that with the described behaviour, there is no MM rest automatically set, I need to hide the chords for this part. Perhaps this is the way it was earlier as well, but I can’t really recognize that I have seen this need before (I might be wrong). Anyway, is there a setting so that if there are nothing entered in a section for an instrument, a MM should be created automatically without the need of hiding the chords?
I can only think about slash regions and chord regions as an alternative.
I am not sure I understand what you mean. For chord regions, mustn’t I do the reverse, i. e. define all places where I want chords? And for slash regions…how could this help to create MM rests in the situation I describe?
With slash regions you can set that there appear the chord symbols. If you write a guitar part with mostly slashes this is maybe an solution. If there is a small region with notes and desired chord symbols you have to add an chord region. But I agree you have to do it all manually.
It would be nice if there is an setting that in multi bar rests there are no chord symbols. So I think we have a feature request here.
Yep, thanks. Not that it is high on my list, I won’t take me much extra time to hide chords in the rhythm section where I want MM rests, it is not extremely common. I was just a little curious since I can’t recall that I have seen this “chord hiding” need before. Case closed for my part. Also thanks again @pianoleo for very competent support.
1 Like