one bar multibar rest

Dorico
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Hello.

Someone probably already asked that, but due to my lack of language knowledge I wasn’t able to find anything.

In my score, when I go to parts, I have multibar rest on. Good, that’s what I want. But when it happens that there is only one bar, dorico puts a big number “1” above the measure.

Is there a way to remove that?

Cheers.

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Engraving options (Cmd+shift+e), rests, no bar count…

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There it was!

Thanks

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Should this also work in Elements? Or only in PRO?

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Only Dorico Pro has access to Engraving Options.

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And is there a way to alter this on individual multi-bar rests? I notice that a lot of things that can be set-up in PRO for automatic layouting can be controlled in Elements manually

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I don’t believe so, no, I’m afraid.

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I have the same problem. Has someone a solution for Dorico Elements?

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I would be happy if there were a way to disable 1-bar multirests completely. Even without the number 1, they appear as if forced – in black (distractingly) when I always show implicit rests in grey. And there are things you can’t do by selecting a multirest that you can when selecting a regular rest.

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(In Pro) You can in Engraving Options>Rests>Multi-bar Rests

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It’s subtler than that. It’s not just the numeral, it’s the fact that the single-bar rest also selects and behaves like a multirest. I’ll give an example when I get back to my computer tomorrow.

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Here’s an example: Select a rest and Shift-arrow to extend the selection. This works fine starting with a regular rest but fails with a multirest. In fact Shift-arrow deselects the latter! Shift-click on another multirest also fails (although Shift-clicking on a non-rest does work to extend).

I can’t really complain, as I understand multirests are system objects. But it seems unnecessary to make a single bar rest behave as a multirest when not displaying the “1”. I’ve gotten used to it by now, but I thought this thread is my chance to mention it.

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Hi! It would be nice to have an option to remove this 1 even manually in Dorico Element. It doesn’t look pretty clean on my score.

I tried to individually set a custom scale to 1% but it doesn’t affect it.

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SOLUTION: this workaround works for all versions:

  1. Select the bar(s) where you don’t want the multibar rest
  2. Under Write choose Create Chord Symbol Region
  3. If you don’t work with chords, you’re all set. If you work with chords and you don’t want them to appear, select these chords and in the Properties Panel (at the bottom of your screen). Under Chord Symbols you can select Hidden OR under Common you can set the Custom Scale to 1 and/or the Color to white

Cheers.

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