Hi there. I am trying to create a tempo marking for a score in 10/8, with 2 beats per measure. Accordingly, I’d like to have the tempo markings to show eg h+e = 60 (with a tie between h and e/halfnote and quarternote). How can I do this?
Also, it seems impossible to make this meter beam accordingly - any suggestions?
It’s not possible that way, except if do it with the system text popover (Shift + X) and chose the right font for each element, or create it as playing technique.
Whatever way you choose, you‘ll obviously need to hide the real tempo indication then.
EDIT: I’d like to do it myself right now so I could give you more detailed and illustrated instructions, but I’m travelling at the moment and don’t have a laptop with me. It’s a bit of fiddly work, because with music fonts you first have to find the right key or keyboard shortcut to write the corresponding symbols in texts.
But why not just use quavers (eighth notes) as reference? Is the piece so fast that counting these is not possible?
The font MusGlyphs will work very nicely for your tempo marking.
As for beaming, when you say “accordingly,” do you mean beam 4 / flag /beam 4 / flag?
I think he means to have 5 by 5 beaming groups by default.
If you, @JMSmordal, want that, you’ll have to enter the meter as [5+5]/8, or if you want to display the division in the time signature, write it without the square brackets.
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To follow up on @Len_von_Geist’s response: if, for some reason, you wanted it the other way, it would be [4+1+4+1]/8. It will display as 10/8 but get whichever (5+5 or 4+1+4+1) beam groupings you want.
Here’s the manual discussion:
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Yes exactly!
Whatever grouping you want, you’ll just use numbers and plusses between them to serve your demands.
Here’s how the tempo indication looks using MusGlyphs:
Super easy to work with, the “suggested” $10 donation through Notation Central is a fantastic price, and font designer @dan_kreider is a fellow forum member and regular presence, very generous in his assistance with others.
(Full disclosure: I have no financial interest in Dan’s fonts, having never received the percentage he never promised to pay me. 
Joking aside, I’m just a happy user of the font (and MusAnalysis).)
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@judddanby Thanks for this. I have been a very happy user of the MusGlyph since it was released - a real saver, huge thanks to @dan_kreider ! My question regarding tempo markings was adressed to what Dorico could do «natively». But I did end up uding MusGlyph for this.
As for the meter I ended up with a [5+5]/8 pop-over text, but somehow Dorico didn’t group it as such; If I wrote 9 eight notes, it grouped correctly (5+[4+1 rest]). If I filled the bar with eights, it just made a beam over all 10. I don’t know if this is a bug or not, but I have checked every possible combinations of beam groupings in Notation dialog, with no success.
I replied this post addressing both of your responses (+ @Len_von_Geist ). Thanks!
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Hi @JMSmordal, I found that changing this
Notation Option>16th notes (semiquavers) in eighth note (quaver) denominator time signatures>Break beams at beat boundaries,
divides the eight notes beam in 5+5 (even if the setting is for sixteenth notes…):
Generally is strange that Dorico shows correct eight notes beam groups for all other additive combinations (2+8, 3+7, 4+6 etc…) but doesn’t to do so with 5+5 (at least before changing the before mentioned option).
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Fantastic @Christian_R , so very not intuitive - yet it works! Saved my day.
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You are welcome @JMSmordal