Greetings folks,
I just had a discussion with Leo on the Facebook forum, and he advised I post the project here. The problem is with “play n times” displaying after I had done a custom different time signature for the flute in the third flow at rehearsal “S” mm. 33-34
the indications disappeared in the whole flow, as well (those times before at Rehearsal “O” m 20, as well as Red “L” at m. 5 and 6 (those were each 6 times, now they don’t show either). These all displayed fine BEFORE I made the custom time sig change at m.35 in the flute part. It also still plays the repeats, but now loops back to the beginning of the third flow after playing m. 21 (I hadn’t gotten around to resetting the measure numbers in the third flow yet).
Here is the project (I’m on a Mac):
Olde Tuun PinballMIX1 v3 2020.dorico.zip (800 KB)
Here is the Facebook discussion (in case it helps)
Thanks so much to Leo Nicholson for his help and patience of steel:
"Wondering if this is something I’m ‘derping’ wrong again, or if it’s abnormal behavior; I have a repeat set up, and there is a dotted bar line in between (with a time sig change) to clarify, then the next measures have diff time signatures- so when I go down to properties to say “play n times” it won’t display on either instrument. It must be me:
Leo Nicholson
What’s set at Engraving Options > Repeat Markers > Repeat Count > Location for repeat count?
No problem here
Istvan Peter B’Racz
Leo Nicholson now it seems ALL “repeat n times” text has disappeared. I will check the engraving options, but it worked fine before I did the diff time sigs
Leo Nicholson
Istvan Peter B’Racz I missed the bit about the independent time signatures, but that’s still not an issue here.
Leo Nicholson
Istvan Peter B’Racz Ah. Wait a sec. One time signature has to be global (e.g. not Alt-Enter when closing the popover). This is good practice anyway, as other things go wrong if you don’t have one global time signature.
Istvan Peter B’Racz
Repeat n Times is “on”
Istvan Peter B’Racz
Engraving option ‘seems’ to be right.
Istvan Peter B’Racz
Leo Nicholson not sure I follow…?
Leo Nicholson
Istvan Peter B’Racz That Engraving Option isn’t relevant. This one is the one I asked about.
Istvan Peter B’Racz
Leo Nicholson yes, that is correctly set. I just changed it to “show at start” and still now ALL text indicating this are hidden. It still plays back with the repeats, though.
Leo Nicholson
Istvan Peter B’Racz What I meant is that the repeat barline (and one of the time signatures) need to be regular global barlines/time signatures. If you’ve entered both time signatures while holding Alt or by closing the popover with Alt-Enter, it won’t work properly.
Leo Nicholson
Istvan Peter B’Racz Just try deleting that whole set of barlines and time signatures, then start again, in this order.
- Add 11/8 as a regular time signature.
- Set end repeat barline.…(etc, shortened)
Istvan Peter B’Racz
Leo Nicholson I see, I will try to fix this- I thought I did it right, but prob not. But that doesn’t explain the missing text from BEFORE this moment.
Is it possible that, since this is a new flow, and I did not have a time signature in the beginning of the flow, that is what’s causing the problems?
Leo Nicholson
Istvan Peter B’Racz It sounds to me like you have sections of music that don’t have a global time signature. At the beginning of the flow you need an “open” time signature, I guess.
Istvan Peter B’Racz
Leo Nicholson I originally had an x, and put dotted bar lines in as I was figuring it out. Then added time sigs, and repeats. This is wrong?
Istvan Peter B’Racz
I found composing this way in Dorico to be amazingly fruitful.
Leo Nicholson
Istvan Peter B’Racz There’s nothing wrong about that, specifically. The thing that’s likely to be wrong is having sections of music where there are only independent meters, no global meter.
Istvan Peter B’Racz
Leo Nicholson so when I entered, later, a time sig at the beginning of this flow, that doesn’t count as a global time signature?
Leo Nicholson
Istvan Peter B’Racz It counts as a global time signature if it is a single time signature that applies to all staves.
Istvan Peter B’Racz
Leo Nicholson yes- that’s what it was.
Istvan Peter B’Racz
(The beginning of the last flow) originally it had no time sig, then I added them later, with repeats, and dotted bar lines, and indicated a few places with “repeat n times” which now no longer show up.
Istvan Peter B’Racz
Ok, so now something weird is happening- it plays from the beginning of the third flow, with correct number of repeats (even though it does t display them) and then gets to a certain point and loops beck to the beginning of the flow over and over-
Leo Nicholson
This is complicated. You need to post the project, either publicly or to someone on the development team.
Leo Nicholson
Istvan Peter B’Racz It’s probably a matter of a couple of minutes’ work to get to the bottom of, but no-one’s going to get there from a few screenshots.
