Daniel, I’m afraid your patience will be tried over the next days, weeks, and months. But, I’m sure you will maintain your professional, helpful demeanor, as always.
I certainly appreciate our past interactions, and I know many others do too.
I see. In this case I’m learning the program by inputting already finished scores, and have run into the dilemma of: I have the music down at the bar numbers they should appear, but need to go back and change a meter as I enter the next part.
The system track/insert tool method seems like it would be most useful when creating material fresh in the moment.
Indeed lots of ways to skin a cat, but each tool does have its own idiosyncratic use.
How did you add a measure through the system track? I inserted
the stop position so I could change 4/4 to 3/4 but Dorico still changed the mesaure that I “stopped” to 3/4!!!
The post I saw was saying use insert mode stop position. All I had to do was redtatevthe 4/4. I’ve got it. Thanks.
I keep notes! What a learning curve!
Using “Insert Mode Scopes” makes what you’re trying to do easy. Presumably, if you’re, say, changing one bar to 5/4 in a sea of 4/4 it’s because you want to add something to that bar without affecting the bars that come after it. To do this:
Do not enter a new time sig.
Activate insert mode (“I”). Then cycle through the different “insert mode scopes” by repeatedly hitting opt/alt-I until you get to the one whose icon looks like this:
Insert whatever additional material you want in the bar in question (e.g., a quarter note rest at the end of the bar)
Dorico will automatically change the time sig of that bar to 5/4 (or whatever amount of time you’ve added to the bar), and change the time sig back to 4/4, without you doing anything else. It’s genius!
That is slick! I just now tried it. It will be very useful for me in scoring hymns for my church. With it I can easily add a rest in the measure containing a backward repeat, to provide a brief silence between stanzas.