I usually find the solution to problems via Google…but this time I’m stuck. What do I have to do to format the two multi-bar rests in the same size across the staff?
If you turn off multi-bar rest consolidation (in Library > Layout Options > Players) you’ll find that the first six bars don’t contain any rests - they’ve been removed. Select the bar rest at the start of bar 7 and, in the properties panel, turn off its Starts Voice property. The rests should return to bars 1-6 - if they don’t, just say. When you go back to Layout Options and consolidate multi-bar rests again, you’ll find that the multibar rests are spaced correctly.
If you remove the notes and rests from a bar, Dorico has nothing to space. If you do want to show empty bars without rests, there’s a separate Layout Option for that.
It may be that you didn’t manually remove the rests, but that you imported MusicXML that contained this error. If so, for next time, it’s well worth going into Preferences > MusicXML Import and turning off the Rest visibility option (and any other options that look like they may force Dorico to respect faulty notation). This won’t have any impact on MusicXML files youo’ve already imported, but it may save you time in future.
Thanks for your answer, pianoleo…but the “Starts Voice” property only appears when a specific note is clicked…if I select bar 7 this property does not appear…this score was not an XML import either, rather I wrote everything manually in a new project
Select just the first visible note or rest in the Flow. I’m guessing it’s a bar rest at bar 7. Does it have Starts voice turned on? If so, turn it off.
Failing that, invoke the caret at the start of bar 1 and type Shift-B rest Enter. That should put a rest in the first bar, and will probably also put rests in the following bars. If it doesn’t, rinse and repeat at bar 2, bar 3, bar 4 etc.
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No, “Starts Voice” on the selected rest is inactive…
Ahhh…now I understand…
…and now the formatting is actually as desired.
Thank you very much for your help😊