Hello.
I want to insert a rehearsal mark into a totally blank measure in Dorico Pro 5, like this:
What I want is to indicate to play the A part without having to write it again, so the music sheet becomes shorter for the musician.
How can I get to do it? I used Finale in the past, if it’s useful for you to know.
Thank you.
Hi @bajodorado,
(You could create a hidden coda, adjust the gap as desired then put a rehearsal mark and drag it to the gap position in Engrave mode, then readjust the bar numbers as needed.)
Or just create a staff attached text with border and erase background (adjusting the padding as desired), to hide the lines of bar 18, and set the opacity of the bar rest in bar 18 to 0% to hide it. You can then set the opacity for the real rehearsal mark to 0% to hide it. And adjust the bar 18 width with a local note spacing change, and a reset one in bar 19. And also here you may want to adjust the bar numbering from the current bar 19, to mach the “repetition”.
Here an example with the second method:
Dorico File example:
fake rehearsal mark hiding lines.dorico (500.0 KB)
Here a video with the workflow:
Amazing answer, that’s exactly what I was looking for. I’ll give it a try.
Do you know if I can copy the changes made in this menu and paste them in another symbol? I want to do it to change the position of the rehearsal mark included in the particella:
Thank you very much for your video, too.
Yes, you can select the boxed text in engrave mode, then from menu Edit choose Propagate Properties.
You can also copy and paste the Note Spacing changes in Write mode, from score to part: select the first NSC, use the select more shortcut or from menu Edit > Select more, copy then select in the part the barline and paste them.
To not have the multibar rest 1 on bar 18, you can add there a Chord Symbol region (that will break the multibar rest), and then you can hide the remaining bar rest as explained.
You are right again. Dorico is extremely powerful, definitely.
Thank you very much for your answers, Christian. Very useful and straight to the point.
You are very welcome, @bajodorado.
(I added something in my previous post)
And yessss: Dorico is extremely powerful, elegant and consistent!
Hello, @Christian_R.
I followed your steps, but I don’t have “Opacity” in my menu, so I can’t hide a multibar rest. Would you have any other suggestion?
Thank you.
Hello, @asherber.
Thank you for answering. I tried, but I get this result in the final score:
What could be failing?
Make sure you have the rest selected when you change the opacity – otherwise you’re changing the opacity of something else.
I have changed the value of “Alpha channel1” of the rest to 0, but it keeps showing in the final result. Any other idea?
yes:
Try again to only select the rest (and nothing else). May be move the text to the side first.
I did, but it doesn’t seem to be the problem.
I found one method, anyways:
In first place, write a whole note (in the case of a 4/4 measure) to make the multibar rest disappear. After that, you can hide the note in the Engrave mode menu (CTRL + 8, hide note…) or you can select the note set its colour opacity to “0”.
And that’s it. This is how it looks as a PDF file:
Thank you all for your answers.
You can hide notes and stems in Engrave properties - there’s no need to scale and use opacity anymore.
That’s true.
I’ve added that option in my prior explanation of the method.
Thank you all.
