I have some rhythmically complicated parts and I want to have a dashed barline in the middle of my 4/4 bars to make it easier to read. However, some parts have just whole notes during these bars, and for them I don’t want the dashed barlines shown.
When I create the dashed barlines with an aggregate time signature there is no way to hide them in individual parts. I know it would be possible to do with local time signatures and barlines, but in a large score that would require a lot of manual adjustment, so is there another way?
Of course it will always require manual adjustment, but I want to be able to do it with a button and not by creating local time signatures and local barlines.
Ideally I can think of an automated solution where the dashed barline is only shown where the smallest note value inside a bar is smaller than quarter note for example. Then it would be crucial to be able to easily override the automatic hiding.
There’s been some new stuff in 5.1.2. You can now use aggregate meters and make them appear as normal meter, so I suppose this is something you could take advantage of, as did @Michel_Edward in his second symphony, IIRC.
Yayy, this simplifies my life a lot! Thanks for the info. Perhaps it would be great if a time signature like 2/4+3/4+3/8 could show like 5/4+3/8, so that it combines all fractions with a like denominator. But this is already great!