I have several long unmetered measures displaying various scales. I’m able to position most of them by going into engrave mode, selecting the barline, and using the < or > key to push the measure forward or back a system so there are two bars per system as shown below
However the final two measures only appear as one bar per system with the final bar on a new page. When I select the barline of the final measure and use the ‘<’ key to push it back to the previous page, nothing happens. Attempts to use the “Move to Previous System” button in the engrave mode also doesn’t seem to work. If I move the second to last measure to the previous line, the final measure will move backwards to the previous page, however as soon as I try to move the second to last measure to the same system as the final measure, the final measure will get pushed back onto the second page again.
Is there some way to force it so I can have two bars on the final system like the rest of the worksheet I’m making?
Hi @Bryan_T, probably you have a System Break on the last bar. If you switch on the Signposts Visibility (from the Eye icon on the upper toolbar), you can see its signpost. Select the signpost and delete it.
If not, you can force the last two bars into the same system: in Engrave mode select the first note of the second-to-last bar, and the last note of the last bar, and choose Make Into System.
Or you can apply a Note Spacing Change to the last two bars, with a smaller value for the quarter notes (this will let the two bars live together automatically into the last system, without its fullness to go over 100%)
If nothing helps, please upload your Dorico file here, so we can see what is going on.
That was exactly it! I have signposts hidden by default in my templates because I find them visually distracting and haven’t really found them particularly useful yet, however I suppose they could be extremely handy when trying to chase down issues such as this one.
Thanks again, Christian!
Very, very often, when a user finds himself asking, “Why is this happening?”, the answer becomes clear when signposts are visible.
Looks like you just found a use! 
You can easily toggle them off and on (set up a key command if there isn’t one already). I have mine on by default and toggle them off to view a “clean sheet” then back on while I’m working. As @asherber noted, they are quite helpful.
— Jim
Yeah, I’m learning that. It’s almost like the developers knew what they were doing or something! As with anything, it’s been an adjustment process to get used to Dorico’s way of doing things compared to other notation environments, but as with most software, the more I learn about it, the more sense it makes.
