How to 'syncopate' a fourth tied to an eighth into a dotted fourtth

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Sorry but I didn’t find how to syncopate a fourth tied to a eigth, into a dotted fourth.
I write in 7/8 or 5/8 and Dorico refuses that I use dotted values.
Thanks for the help.

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Daniel

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It’s how one sets up the time signature. The 5/8 is [2+3]/8.

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Thnk you But can you apply for the whole score that you want those ‘grouped’ values?

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This applies for all staves (unless you choose to make it local by pressing alt while pressing enter after filling the popover)

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IIRC One can copy and paste time signatures.

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Hi
Sorry but I can’t make it . I pressed SHIFT M, then entered [2 + 3 + 2]/8 but no way It keeps the fourth tied to an eigth. I would prefer a dotted fourth, but I can’t make it. (By the way it’s imported from Finale, where it was a dotted fourth) I joined the .dorico file
Peine_Amour_V03_C1169.dorico (1.8 MB)

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It works for me. And once I’ve changed one time sig, I can Alt/Opt+click it to other locations.

In your post it looks like you have spaces around the plus sign, and that won’t work. It needs to be entered as [2+3+2]/8.

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Thank you so much. Solved