Hi,
While editing one of my project parts in Engrave mode, I lost all the bar numbers in the rehearsal marks - only in that specific part though, not in the other parts or the full score. The result is empty enclosing shapes. I tried creating new rehearsal marks but I still get empty enclosing shapes (again, only in the part I was editing when the bar numbers disappeared).
Can someone explain and help me get the bar numbers back? Thanks a lot!
Max
Welcome to the forum, @maxtelier!
It’s a known issue if you have local Time Signatures and Rehearsal Marks showing bar numbers.
It depends on the type of local time signature you’re using (if you’re using one at all). Is it essential (e.g. polymeter with non-coincident barlines), or could you achieve what you need in another way (if you were using LTS for beaming purpose, polymeter with coincident barlines, etc.)?
Oh, very well spotted thanks Charles! I followed the advice on the thread (ie using force duration instead of local time signatures) and the bar numbers reappeared as if by magic!
Thanks a lot for your speedy reply,
Max
I’ve been running into some un-Dorico-y type of issues in the past couple of days and this is one of them. This really is a baffling bug to be around for so many years (I’ve found forum posts as far back as 2018). It just completely destroys your workflow.
@charles_piano Could you think of any way to fix this when the local time signatures are in fact essential? I have to use 6/8 and 2/4 polymeter. The only things I can think of myself is either manually changing the sequence type to Numbers in the properties panel and then filling in the bar number in the index (for every layout that has local TS and for each and every rehearsal mark), or make a copy of the file with just the layouts that have local TS, and change those all back to global. Neither sound very appealing. 
Yeah I thought about that as well, but I use Sebastian as Music Font so MusGlyphs won’t match. I’d have to create playing techniques with the right glyphs and position those. If I’d known this during the note input stage I might have done that but right now I’m not sure if it’s worth the hassle. Thanks for chiming in!
You don’t need to use playing techniques. You can use text with a music text character style, or, better yet, set up a paragraph style using Sebastian, with its positioning offsets configured for the time signature. Then the only manual adjustment necessary would be adding the extra horizontal note spacing.
That never occured to me, thanks for pointing this out! I’ll give it a try.
