Open Meter & Condensing

Dorico
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I’m working on a piece with a long cadenza. I’ve set the score to open meter and added bar lines manually in the soloing instrument. Then I’ve added a fermata in the remainder of the orchestra. So far so good.

When switching to Condensing view, however, the single bar rest with a fermata only appears on uncondensed instruments (e.g., Cor Anglais and Bass Clarinet in the attached screenshot). On subsequent pages, the uncondensed instruments are empty instead of the rest+fermata, but that’s fine too. The condensed staves show actual rests, which I don’t want.

Suggestions?

(Separately, I’m hoping that hiding empty staves in particular bar/page ranges is on the near horizon – that would be wonderful for this kind of thing!)

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Perhaps working with Ends voice / Starts voice?

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Clever thinking, but it didn’t work. Thank you for the suggestion!

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Maybe this isn’t what you’re looking for, but I made a quick example, and it seems to work fine with condensing, just adapting one of the orchestra templates. The first bar is open meter, then after that it goes to 4/4.
Condense-example.dorico.zip (579 KB)

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Thanks, Stephen. That does look fine, but I found that when I extended the open meter bar across multiple pages, it had the same problem. I guess that’s the root of the issue.

Much appreciated.

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Maybe you could make one bar per page, and use Change Bar Number with hidden barlines, so the cadenza looks like it’s still just one bar long?

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Clever! I’ll give that a try. Thanks for the suggestion.

I guess I’d presumably have some hiding to do in the parts so it just looks like one bar there?

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Edit/Propagate Properties should take care of hidden barlines in the parts, I’m guessing?