Hello all,
I would like an upbeat and a final bar together to have the value of a bar again. How I create an upbeat is clear to me, but in my opinion I have created the final bar somewhat “roughly”. Example: 4/4 bar with one beat as upbeat shift-M 4/4,1; works. Final bar then has 3 beats shift-M 4/4,3; also works, but Dorico now generates a new 4/4 sign. I made these characters invisible with the help of “User-defined scaling” by setting them to 0. Is there a more elegant solution?
Easy way : put the caret where you want the music to end, shift-b, end (or double pipe, or whatever). Then with the system track, remove the extra bar at the end.
Edit: it’s “fin” and not “end” in the popover
No, because Dorico and its developers seem to take pride in a piece of software that makes things easy for users, employs musically semantic intelligence, is accessible, intuitive and generally just “does the right thing, automagically”.
Type “Fin” insted of “end”. Start und end give you the repeat barlines for the begining and end of a section to be repeated and Fin gives you a final bar.
