Grouping individual beats in odd time

Dorico
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Hi Dorico community,

I’m struggling to get individual beats to group in 5/4.

I have a 5/4 bar of quavers/quarter notes, and I want them beamed in 2s (one beam per beat).

I’ve tried using a [1+1+1+1+1]/4 grouping, but this causes it to beam the entire bar together.
All other groupings (1+1+1+2, 2+1+1+1, etc.) all work fine, but it seems that 1+1+1+1+1 doesn’t split the beams.

Is there something I’m missing here? I looked in notation and engraving options (and google) but nothing seemed relevant.

Cheers!

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Welcome to the forum, jazz251. In addition to using a time signature of [1+1+1+1=1]/4, also make sure that you set ‘Eighth note (quavers) in quarter note (crotchet) denominator time signatures’ to ‘Break beams at beat boundaries’, on the Beam Grouping page of Notation Options.

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Thanks! I’m not sure how I missed the Beam Grouping section, I’ve definitely used those settings before…