Independent repeats... sometimes

Dorico
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Hi everyone. Most of my work is in pop/rock music that is, let’s be honest, usually in 4/4!

I am currently copying a score that has been handwritten by the composer, which is really stretching me beyond my usual Dorico abilities and I was would love some help.

As you can see from the attached graphic, at times I need repeat bars to be either on just one instrument, or on a few staves, or across the whole system. I have created independent open time signatures for each instrument, and have got to work. As you can see:

  1. The whole system repeat at the beginning has additional repeat wings in the middle around staves 2 and 3 that I can’t figure out how to delete
  2. The repeats following that around JUST staves 2 and 3 are working perfectly.
  3. The repeats on the 2nd system that cover the top 3 instruments should ideally all join together, but I can’t get them to behave. I seem stuck with the top stave doing it’s own thing.

Let me know any thoughts you might have!

Jared

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Can you show in signposts where your independent open time signatures start for each staff?

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Sure, here you go. Apparently they get re-applied at every repeat… not sure if that’s part of the problem? I admit that I don’t fully understand what’s happening here.

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That’s normal, as barlines (including repetitions) as well as meters are kinda the same thing in dorico.

Did you try to just select the repeat start barline spanning only voice 2&3 and hit delete?
It looks like to me you added them twice, once for all instruments (correct, I assume?) and once for Voice 2&3

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I did, and they all deleted when I deleted one of the commencing ones. Strange. However, now it’s behaviour has changed so that the middle two are joined, but the outer ones are separate.

Not to worry. The time crunch on this job is quite intense, and I need to get it to the artist, so they’ll need to deal with slightly odd repeat behaviour! Thanks for your help.

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You could always upload the affected part of your score in a separate dorico file and we could have a deeper look. For now, we wouldn’t exceed speculation.