Dotted quarter rest

[erikdahl]

@Daniel at Steinberg

I don’t think your earlier posts sounded rude in the least, Mats. I am just trying to get at the underlying issue here.

We do plan to add some further options for how rests may be subdivided in simple meters, which would apply to 2/2 (or alla breve, however you want to call it). We plan to provide an option that would determine whether any rest that crosses the half-beat should be broken (which would allow you to prevent a dotted quarter rest at the start of the beat in 2/2, for example), among other things. These options won’t be in the forthcoming 1.0.30 update but I expect we will be able to add them relatively soon.

Hi Daniel!

Has this function been implemented?
I want to use the so called ‘alla breve’-time signature (a C with a vertical line). But I don’t ever want dotted quarter rests.
This is the convention for writing horn parts in my part of the world for latin american music. My players expect it to look that way.

I have tried all the disallow dotted rest options but to no avail. Am I missing something?

I attach a screen dump with an example of the offending dotted rests.

Kind regards, Erik

[benwiggy]

There is still no option for this. What you can do is to use 2/2 for the first bar, then hide a 4/4 time sig in bar 2.

[erikdahl]

@benwiggy

There is still no option for this. What you can do is to use 2/2 for the first bar, then hide a 4/4 time sig in bar 2.

Ah, workarounds. Thank you, better than manually forcing each rest.