In Chorale settings you can often find interchangeable time signatures without seperators. I couldn’t figure out a way to enter the time signatures without a seperator. I always have to go to Engrave mode and change the seperator there.
If I than go back to Write mode ans select the time signature I will be shown a combination, which I can’t enter directly.
E.g.:
enter “2/4 - 3/4” into the popover
go to Engrave mode and change the separator to ’ ’
go back to Write mode an open the popover again, by selecting the time signature
The popover shows “2/4 3” which doesn’t give me any result, if I enter this directly.
Would be nice, if one could enter an interchangeable time signature without a separator directly. (at least for me …)
Sorry, Dan, but I also don’t want an aggregate time signature. Do you know the difference between simple, aggregate, additive and interchangeable time signatures? I do and my question is not how to get the correct result. (If you follow my steps above, you will get the correct result too). I only ask for a direct way to input an interchangeable time signature without a separator into the popover.
According to the documentation, you can set a global value for the separator. That’s probably where you would input your space character, just once, and set as default.
Ah, that’s true. I can change the global value for the separator in the Engraving options. But I still can’t figure out a way to enter it directly. I must be missing something obvious …
Except that doesn’t seem to work. There’s still no way of entering an interchangeable time signature without the “separator” property becoming switched on.
Yeah, you already said that. By the way, you don’t need to be in Engrave mode for that; you just need the Properties Panel to be open. Write mode works fine.
Thanks for your help, Dan and Pianoleo. I still don’t understand, why I can set a global value, but can’t get the desired result immediately and the values, that the popover shows after changing the property doesn’t look right at all. Perhaps Daniel can comment on this, if it is not too unimportant.
This is definitely a bug… If I type 2/4 / 6/8 and untick the Separator in Properties then the slash disappears according to settings in Engrave > Time Signatures > Design, but any new Time Signature inputted will have the Separator enabled by default, thus ignoring the Global Properties of Engrave > Design.