Dotted Quarters not responding to a preference

[Martin90]

Could you post your Dorico file or a reduced version so that we can have a look? Maybe it’s the same or a similar issue as this one:

Half note on second beat breaks into two tied quarters even when it is configured not to

I have Dorico configured to not split half notes on the second beat into two beamed quarter notes, but to keep it as a half note: [Screenshot 2024-09-30 at 8.54.07 AM] However, that setting doesn’t seem to work: [Screenshot 2024-09-30 at 8.57.38 AM] PS I can explicitly use “force duration”, of course, but how come the default setting doesn’t work?