Dashed double barline?

[k.k]

How do I create a dashed double barline?

I can create a regular double barline, but how do I create one using a dash?

[John_Ruggero]

Dorico should automatically use double dotted bar lines if you have the dotted bar line option chosen for ossias etc. Not sure why it isn’t doing that. And I see no way to change it on an individual basis.

I once ran into this problem in Finale and had to draw them in with the line tool.

Might be a feature request if this is something that has been overlooked.

[k.k]

The above staves is not an ossia.

It was created using the coordination line.

[John_Ruggero]

Sorry, you asked about a dashed double bar line. If that is a coordination line, not a bar line, it may not be standard practice to use double coordination lines. Someone who uses coordination lines and does cutaway scores and such might chime in here.

[Christian_R]

@k.k

double barline, but how do I create one using a dash?

Hi @k.k, I don’t see an option to create a line style (which you then could apply to the coordination line) as double dashed.

A workaround would be to create a second Coordination line at the next barline for example, and drag it near the first one:

[k.k]

Thanks. @Christian_R @John_Ruggero

[MarcLarcher]

I think I solved an issue last month with a double barline as coordination line. The solution was to create a specific vertical line that can be used by this tool… Let me search for the thread

Here! Hope it helps!

[Christian_R]

@Christian_R

I don’t see an option to create a line style (which you then could apply to the coordination line) as double dashed.

@k.k
I tried further and I came up with a (mediocre) way to produce a double dashed line (to be assigned to a coordination line).

Steps:

1. Create a line annotation using 2 copies of the dashed barline glyph, and set their distance (trial and error):
   

   

2. Create anew line, with an invisible boy, and apply the created dashed double line as Center Annotation (with the settings as in the screenshot):
   

   

3. Apply this line to a Coordination line; prolong and position it as desired:
   

   

Result:

Dorico file example:
coordination line with custom double dashed line.dorico (1.3 MB)

[k.k]

Can it be made short? When I adjust the dash-gap pattern, horizontal lines appear at both ends.

[jesele]

@Christian_R

Create a line annotation using 2 copies of the dashed barline glyph,

Clever!!!

Jesper

[MarcLarcher]

As a feature request, I’d ask that double barlines body style can handle the dash length-gap feature that is available (but does nothing on double barlines). It would be quite easy to achieve what is asked for here, and also very easy to transform when needed.