If I tie in attached example the notes, I get: half note + dotted half note + half note. But I want to get: half note + quarter note + whole note (what I had before tying). A bug? Or I doing something wrong?
One way to get your desired tie is to type in a new time signature in your second bar with the shift-M popover, [1+4]/4. This will make your tie work correctly. Then you can go to the properties panel at the bottom of the window and hide the time signature.
Yes - before you enter the notes. If you’ve already entered notes, in my experience you have to delete them, press the “O” key (Force Duration), then re-enter them. If you use the [1+4]/4 popover, it will overwrite the existing notation.
Not to derail the thread, but I would like to throw in that – unless unusual circumstances apply – your 1+4 spelling is metrically invalid and that Dorico’s spelling of 2+3 (or alternatively 3+2) is correct.
Thank you, this worked. But is there a possibility to to make the 1+4/5 invisible and write a 5/4? Hiding the time signature doesn’t help, because in the previous bar I have a 4/4.
I’ve done this kind of thing where there is a fermata, rather than forcing a conductor to conduct an unnecessary beat.
Also, if there is a constant accompaniment rhythm of 1-4, tying that 1 for a 3-2 or 2-3 produces audibly different results.
2 reasons: Because of polyphony and triplets this bars would be difficult to read with 3+2 or 2+3. And because of the triplets it is not really a 3+2 or 2+3 bar. But 1+4 is a compromise. Here would be ideal to have a single note with the length of 5/4 (perhaps a whole note with a half dot ) Then there would be no necessity to divide the 5/4 bar in 2 parts.