I’m a recent convert to Dorico, and so far I am loving it. One thing I have not figured out is how to manually enter multi measure rests. It seems like Dorico does not have this feature, which I use frequently when creating lead sheets. Dorico will only create the sections automatically for you, which does not work for how I use them. I use multi measure rests to show form on a song that might repeat a section, which just label over a multi measure rest to show that. Anyone got ideas of how I can do that in Dorico? Or something similar? I’ve attached a PDF to show an example.
Bye Bye Love.pdf (49.3 KB)
Welcome to the forum @Wes_Ruelle.
You can split multibar rests wherever you like using System Breaks, but if you are putting text objects in then they should split automatically for you.
Position the caret at the rhythmic position where you want the text > press Shift-X (or Shift-Alt/Opt-X for system text) > Enter your text in the popover > press Enter.
If you want to split multi-bar rests without text then you first need to turn multi-bar rests off (via Layout Options), go to Engrave Mode and then add a System Break at the barline of your choice.
When you turn multi-bar rests back on, the rest will be split.
In addition to Daniel’s answer you can even split multi-bar rests everywhere:
Guys, I don’t think Wes is asking about splitting. He is asking how to turn them on in the first place. It’s in Layout Options > Players:
They are off in scores and on in part layouts by default.
If you use system text to make the section headings like “prechorus”, they will automatically break what would otherwise become one long multirest.
Perhaps you’re right.
I did figure out how to get them to turn on, and the splitting stuff is helpful. I was hoping that it would be like finale, where you can select a group of measures and right click to “create multi measure rest”
Maybe that could be a feature request? Where do you submit those?
What you’ve just written about your thoughts is all you need to do 