Nested repeats 'pairing'...?

Dorico
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I have a passage with repeats (as ||: – :|| barlines), and inside that section, there’s another repeat.

Thus: ||: -------- ||: — :|| ----------- :||

Currently, Dorico is doing the inner repeat fine, but marks the outer repeat as problematic.

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In other words, the end outer repeat is trying to go back to the inner repeat start (b. 140), and the initial start repeat is “unpaired”.

How can I fix this? Is there a way to set the end repeat’s ‘target’? Granted, I suppose that nested repeats are essentially ambiguous without some further clarification.

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I take it D.S. will not work in the context you are facing.

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I can add a Segno and Dal Segno, which works, though Proofreading is still flagging the barline repeat notation as problematic.

(And the inner repeat doesn’t repeat on the second time…!)

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Do you have this one ticked, in Library > Playback Options > Repeats?

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That fixed it, thanks.

Though I’d still like to know if there is a way to fix the “unpaired” proofreading alert.

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I think, that nested repeats should be avoided, because there are always amibiguous. Some people even think, that they are wrong, but I didn’t find any proof for this. Gould and Read don’t mention them.