Barline.dorico (1.5 MB)
It’s a recitative, and I need to play the invisible barline at the marked spot. How do I do that?
Does Dorico not have an invisible barline feature?
The easiest way: use 8/4 instead of 3/4 + 5/4
Hide the time signature if you wish.
no Barline.dorico (1.5 MB)
Here is another possibility, but not as straightforward:
Thanks. How do I split the notes downwards?
You mean the beaming? Right click>Beaming>Do not beam or split beaming (depends on what you want). I have made myself different key commands for that, since I tweak those a lot.
Or do you mean move some notes to the stave below, but the beam still beams them?
Yes. stave below
If I select “System Break,” the entire bar moves. It is not split into sections.
If it is on the piano stave and you want a note on the top treble stave to move to the bass clef, click the notehead and press letter m or are you meaning you want to copy/cut and paste a note(s) from one stave to another unrelated instrument?
I’m not sure what you’re looking for, but you can move the system break in Write Mode, with Alt+Arrow – and you can beam the notes together by selecting the first and the last, and Beaming > Beam together.
@k.k, there is a setting in the General Preferences controlling this snapping to whole bars:
Is this how I create an invisible barline? Isn’t there a separate option for that?
It depends on what you want exactly, especially in terms of bar numbering. If you want want this split bar to be one single bar, then you can either create a 8/4 as @k_b was showing, or just delete the barline: it will create a hidden 4/4,8 Time Signature (i.e. a bar with 8 quarters.)
There are some workarounds to hide a barline but in this case you’ll end up with officially two different bars and hence two bar numbers.
Thanks.