I’ve done my best to look around and work this out on my own, but I cannot for the life of me figure out how to default to a dotted eighth rest after a 16th note in 4/4 meter. For example, if I were to enter a passage of 16th notes that ended on a downbeat, the program notates it as such:
Of course, I can force the duration with O, but this happens a lot in this score, and especially in the woodwinds, the score looks much cleaner with dotted eighths in this situation after condensing.
Under normal circumstances, the Rests at the end of simple beats option on the Rests page of Notation Options is what you’re looking for: set it to Allow dotted rests.
However, you evidently have this set already, so I wonder whether you might have been bitten by a bug where, depending on how the time signature was created, it may be ignoring changes to Notation Options. Try recreating the 4/4 time signature using the Shift+M popover rather than the panel on the right-hand side in Write mode.
That worked, Daniel - thank you! I don’t think I created the time signature in any method other than “shift-m 4/4” because this segment is coming out of a 12/8 segment.
I created a a second 4/4 in the bar after the first instance of 4/4 and then hid the time signature, and it’s working though.
Any tips on how I can avoid running into this in the future?
