How can I retain bar width after removing rests for dorico ipad?
I guess youāre seeing barlines squeezed together? That happens if you do Remove Rests on the last (or only) voice present.
The Remove Rests command is mainly intended for polyphonic textures, where secondary voices donāt always need to show all their rests. If you remove rests in the only voice present, notes before and after the rests will get the property āends voiceā and āstarts voiceā, respectively. This means thereās no musical information left at all between those points, and Dorico wonāt have any clue which spacing to apply, because thereās nothing to do the calculations on.
If you donāt want to see whole-bar rests (without deleting the information that a part is just temporarily silent) thereās a setting in Layout Options (> Players > Bar rests and Multi-bar rests) to not show them. I think this is the setting you need here.
To repair it: select the last note before the gap, and in the properties panel at the bottom, uncheck the property āEnds Voiceā. Do the same with any note after the gap, but there itās the property āStarts Voiceā. This will instruct Dorico to handle the āmusical timeā in between as rests for the main voice.
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Thank you so much for your help. My intention is to have empty bars so players can insert any handwritten notation they want. And there are some bars that have rests to indicate Tacetā¦ How shud i achieve this? If i change layout settings then it will apply for all bars with full rests. Or can i have this settings changed but insert explicit rest for Tacet bars? Or just have all empty bars but i insert text āTacetā manually?
Try using quarter notes (or any other suitable denomination) with sound suppressed and stems and noteheads hidden to create seemingly empty measures.
emptyMeasuresTest.dorico (1.3 MB)
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