I’ve searched for this but I’m not sure of the terminology so here goes.
I’m reproducing an orchestral part to transpose it. Because the full score writes out the repeat structures in the scherzo, the parts have different bar numbers depending on where in the full score we find ourselves. They look like this:
Can I/How do I achieve that in Dorico 6?
I’m not sure if this will do exactly what you want, as the structure of the piece might affect things, but a place to start is Engraving Options > Bar Numbers > Repeats - select Count Repeats and click Apply.
Somewhere in the manual there is also a section on Including/Excluding repeats in playback after repeat jumps.
I managed to make the repeat bar counts appear below each other (in a slightly hacky way).
In Layout Options > Bar Numbers > Repeats, I added a literal line break character in front of the opening brace. In effect, the Prefix textbox should contain the following (note that the line break character is simply shown as white space in the textbox):
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Unfortunately, Dorico doesn’t automatically move the bar count up to avoid collisions with the staves, so I had to manually move them up 2 1/2 spaces in Engrave mode.
Thanks for your suggestions. Thanks tomaeto, but the newline isn’t really the issue. It’s having the secondary number appear at all. But looking at the engraving/layout suggestions tells me that what I want isn’t possible.
My requirement is pathologically odd. The (xxx) bar numbers only apply to this movement (flow), and then only
I suspect I’ll have to add these manually as text. After all there are inevitably some corner cases that no software can cope with. And when it’s like that there’s a software engineering principle that says “leave it to the client” (which means in effect, provide a manual override).
Why the publisher did this, I don’t know. I’m all for writing out repeats, but why only in the conductor score?
