Notation Options for Note Grouping not applying?

I’m writing a blog post about basic Note Input and, when talking about how Dorico intelligently knows about the half bar split, I followed Anthony’s video and tried to reproduce his steps exactly.
From this video, though, you can see how even with Notation Options set to split, the half-note doesn’t split.
Screen Recording 2025-01-28 at 13.09.04.zip (972.0 KB)

Has something changed in this area?
Project attached for reference:
Note Grouping not grouping.dorico (418.0 KB)

It is probably because the half-bar notation option is overridden by the syncopation notation option further down the options list.

Change your example to a rhythm that is not recognised as syncopation and see the difference.

Even resetting Notation Options to Factory Settings I still get the same result.
Any idea what setting may be off in the document?
Can you make it split with quarter-half-quarter?

You have to set the syncopation notation option…

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