How do I prevent the last measure barline from being a thick and thin ending and just a normal barline?
Better yet, how do I have an open ending, i.e. no barline at all?
In my case, I’d doing a transcription. I’ve got the basic music, but there is an extended ending there is no need to write down.
More commonly, this problem surely comes up all the time in writing short musical examples for musical analysis, instructional material, and the like.
In Notation Options > Barlines, you can choose which kind of barline you want for the end of the flow:
In the right column of the dialog, select the flow(s) you want to apply this setting to.
That works, thanks! Meanwhile I’d discovered that I can use the popover to get a single barline if I just click on the thick/thin itself, but in this case I think I do like no barline at all.
You can also “hide” a barline anywhere by entering a tick barline and setting it like this (Engrave Mode, Properties Panel)
That’s an interesting side tip. I figured out how to set a tick barline (lucky guess), but what is the purpose of the Tick adj. Out and In?
It’s conceivable that might be useful to know sometime. Thanks.
It indicates how long each part of the tick is – you can try changing values to see what happens.
Another way, which works with a single setting — but only if you’re not using dashed barlines elsewhere in your project. Set things up like this in Engraving Options > Barlines (value #7 = 0), and insert a dashed barline wherever you want an invisible barline.
I haven’t tried it, but I assume every barline regardless of the type results in Dorico bumping the count.
I did a project a while back where I had an unusual bar where I wanted a 5/4 + 3/8 measure and I wanted to put in a dashed barline before the 3/8. It would have been good that way, but that meant that the bar numbers were off by one from that point on relative to the manuscript I was working with, and I didn’t want to hassle with remembering that if I wanted to check something in (say) bar 57 on the manuscript I had to look for it in bar 58 in the Dorico version. So I skipped it. (I suppose now that it’s essentially a done project I could go back and put in that dashed bar. Or even just a regular barline and convert that appendage to a 3/8, but I wanted to maintain consistency with the original (which was 60 years old).
The way to do this in Dorico is to enter an aggregate time signature. You can do this with the right hand panel, or you can do it in the popover as 5/4|3/8 This gives you the bar length you want, with a dashed line before the 3/8 part, and the whole thing counts as a single bar.
Or, if you enter the 3/8 as a separate bar (as I think you did) and then change the barline, you can also insert a bar number change on the 3/8 (right click, Bar Numbers > Add Bar Number Change) and set it to “Don’t Include”.
My original description of this was from memory. I checked the original and the score.
I know about aggregate time signatures. I don’t particularly like them, but the original was a 13/8 bar, but I’d made a conducting notation in the score that it was 5/4+3/8. There were only two (of four) instruments playing at this point and this one really did group best as 5/4+3/8. If I were to do it again, I’d make separate measures of them. I could still do it I suppose, if I really wanted to.
However, 5/4+3/8 is what I did. Furthermore, I added a dashed barline only in the two instruments that were playing. Don’t ask me how I did it. But somehow this avoided bumping the bar number.
I didn’t know there was a way to change the measure count. That could be useful.
As always, thank you for the additional support.
