Hello, Honorable Dorico Community!
How do I get the ‘Cautionary Time Signature’ to show at the end of the line before the CODA, because from Segno we jump back to 4/4 time signature?
You can trick it with the Text tool, how do you actually do it?
And the ‘Cautionary at end of system’->‘Show’ -operate in the ‘Lower Zone’ section doesn’t show the Cautionary Time Signature…
For now (as of v6.1), I’m afraid you’ll have to fake it with text.
You could add a 4/4 bar at the end of the system before the Coda, remove its bar rests, change its right barline to a tick barline and activate the Tick adj. property in engrave mode, setting Out and In to -1/2. Then shorten this bar in note spacing mode:
You’d also have to add a bar numbering change. I just spent the last ten minutes trying to work out these steps with no success. Glad someone got there before me. 
Tnx a lot… ‘johnkprice’!
It still feels like some kind of ‘scam’ - not an official function.
It’s called a “workaround” for a reason. I prefer the old programmer’s term, “kludge”. But consider what it would take for Dorico to do this correctly on its own (and I’m not sure any of the others do this automatically)–the DS function would have to know you’re at the end of the line and look backwards to where you place the sign, then determine the next bar’s time signature in order to tell the program to place a courtesy TS at its location. And it would have to update itself dynamically every time you move the sign. You’d probably need the same function for the coda symbol.
I think it’s doable from a programming standpoint, but I doubt it’s trivial to code. This should be a function, so I imagine it’s on their to-do list for some future release, but I’m willing to wait until they get to it.
