How would you enter free meter on more than one staff, as shown in the example? I know that to use a free meter you can start entering music without having specified a time signature. But, this limits the music to one bar or staff.
One approach might be:
4/4, 26/4, 12/4, 34/4, 7/4, and 6/4 (if I counted correctly) measures, with time signatures hidden and breaks within bars allowed.
Caveat: as I’ve never done this kind of notation, there may be other and better ways.
That’s what I kind of expected, but indeed I wonder whether there’s a better way to achieve the same result.
I think you can just input all your notes and break the system where you want (open time):
Also: you can insert all types of barlines everywhere, just with Shift-B:
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psalmody exmaple.dorico (568.7 KB)
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This is great! I immediately tried it out and it worked like a breeze. The only thing I haven’t figured out yet is how to shorten the first and last system.
This is done in Engrave Mode, with the icon for Note Spacing selected:
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I tried to drag it using the mouse, that’s why it didn’t work.
Hi Bart, maybe @meixner deserves the solution.
Jesper
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I wasn’t that far yet in getting to know Dorico.
No problem – it’s no small task … I’m constantly looking up things in the docs 
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