Hopefully this has be asked. I looked on the forum and didn’t find it.
When I create quarter note that happens on an off beat Dorico treats it like two tied eighth notes. I would like it display as a quarter note. I’m note finding a fixed documented. Any ideas on what to do.
Patrick
So many options.
Thank you.
What I have in my second voice of my score is a quarter rest, eighth rest, quarter note. What prints is quarter rest, eighth rest two tied eighth notes. Voice one is straight quarter notes. I need the tied eighth notes to a quarter.
Option #1 didn’t work. If I understand the setting correctly, all but one of the setting indicates force grouping. The last setting didn’t, so I changed it. These are the settings I get when I select the “Factor Settings” button.
Option #2 did work. What would be nice if you I could select the notes to be group, and select the group icon or press O. I seems to work proactively, so I can’t go back on the score and corrections after the fact.
Force Duration can be applied retrospectively. Select the tied eighths, then hit O, then hit 6 to force it to display as a quarter.
In Dorico SE5 this operation has no effect. I see the “force duration” icon highlight, but hitting 6 make no change to my tied eighths. I can force smaller and larger values, but converting to a quarter, nope.
Try typing O followed by 5 before 6.
The long and short of it is that the note value needs to be set to something short enough to be legal within the global Notation Options. Dependent on where in the bar/beat the tied eighths are, you may well need to go down to an eighth first (or else you probably wouldn’t be forcing the note value in the first place.)
The reason for this is: fundamentally, two tied eighths and a single quarter are the same rhythmic duration. You need to change the duration ideally to something that can be notated using a single notehead first, and then go back up to a quarter.
Perhaps in an ideal world Dorico would assume that reselecting the same duration after activating Force Duration would update the appearance to that basic unit, but I can’t comment on how feasible that would be to change. We would also need to ensure that forcing a note’s duration without reselecting the duration doesn’t change the appearance, as that’s a handy way of locking in a current appearance that you do want.