Creating Multimeasure rests as in Finale

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Ok. So I should have multibar rests turned off on the full score, but on in the part?In this usage, I’m just creating lead sheets, so I’m not really thinking of having “parts” but I can adjust how I’m thinking to do that. I guess I can think of the full score as the pre-print document,

I had been turning multi bar rests off and on a lot to make the changes and then edit them, but that makes a lot more sense! Thanks for your help! I still think it would be great to add a way to create multimeasure rests manually in addition to what’s there, but this will work for now!

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Yes, in Finale as it is said you just selected any number of measures and created a multimeasure rest in one second.
It was a powerful functionality which would be great to have in Dorico.

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Dorico already creates multibar rests automatically. I’m still not convinced there’s a reason for doing it manually.

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It was fast. It was flexible.
I could get exactly any multimeasure rests where I wanted them, the way I wanted them, right away.

I understand other users may want the program to do it automatically. I would rather have full control over my score.

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I don’t dislike that it can do it automatically, and will use that in many circumstances with multiple instruments. I’d just like to be able to select a group of measures and turn them into a multimeasure resr or what functionally for me is a single measure representing a repeat of an earlier section (not really a rest at all) . I believe in finale the measures could have stuff in them and you could still change them to a rest. I know it’s possible in Dorico, but it’s just more difficult.

For what it’s worth, I’ve talked with others who make charts similar to mine, and this is one reason they’re holding onto Finale for as long as they can. It’s something we do often enough that it would be great if it were as simple as creating a slash notation region in Dorico (which is awesome by the way)

I’m a complete Dorico convert now and think it is far superior to Finale. This is literally the only thing that I do regularly that is not as easy. Keep up the awesome work!

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No, that doesn’t work.

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It was the opposite. If you created a multimeasure rest and then wrote music in those bars (in scroll view) Finale wouldn’t always break the rest and show the music.

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I think @Wes_Ruelle was referring to a plug-in by Robert Patterson that could consolidate multirests from measures that contained music.

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I wasn’t referring to a plug in. I might just be wrong about what I said with being able to change measures with content into multimeasure tests. I haven’t used finale in several months so maybe I’m misremembering

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Perhaps I overlooks the explanation, but I don’t see the use case for this. The diagram earlier seemed to be splitting a single multi-measure rest into multiple sections, presumably to reflect sections in the music, which I expect is already possible in Doricao.

What did I miss?

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It’s not about being able to split the rests. It’s very simple - it’d be great to be able to select measures and change them into a multimeasure rest. That’s it. Based on responses, I don’t think that’s gonna happen, but I can dream, right?

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You can’t expect to find identical methods of doing things in Finale and Dorico. You can achieve the same result, and I’d argue that once you get used to it, it’s more powerful and easier.

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I will respectfully disagree that it’s easier for the particular use case I’m describing, which is common in my community. For all other purposes, the way Dorico handle it is better. I’m not saying it should changed how it currently operates, but rather that maybe the manual option could be added. I’m no software engineer, so maybe it can’t be added for some legitimate reason. I in no way expect Dorico to behave like finale, and have adapted to all the ways Dorico works differently. This is the only thing I’m not in love with. I’ll adapt though!

Thanks,
Wes

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