My unmetered bars in my project seem not to be infinite (as I expected). They seem to basically be measured according to the previous bar, with the option of expanding said bar. Is that how these work? I just found myself running out of beats in unmetered bars.
To add 100 beats, Shift-B, 100q.
Unmetered bars are not āmeasured according to the previous barā, but they donāt automatically change length if you add more notes in insert mode.
Either delete the old bar lines and put new ones where you want them, or insert more ātimeā into every staff in the score, as Dan Kreider explained.
Hello all. Iām trying to get rid of time at the end of an un-metered Flow. Even if I use the bars pop-over and -1000q it doesnāt shift (and Iām sure I didnāt insert that amount of time). Thanks in advance for advice!
Have you tried inserting a new bar line, and then deleting the final empty bar?
Or select something in that flow and choose Write > Trim Flow (or enter ātrimā into the Shift-B popover).
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There are no ābarsā as such with non-metered music, but Iāve tried yes.
If you have any barlines after that, youād want to click on the later bars (unmetered though they are) and type Shift-B, -1 without the q.
Thanks, but Iāve tried that. All I get is a pop-up giving me instructions about how to add a time signature if I want to add bars.
Have you tried my suggestion of trimming the flow (a few comments above, I think I replied just before you did so you may have missed it) ?
Thank you Lillie, I hadnāt seen that. So Iāve tried it now, and the remaining bit got shorter (the rest there is now valued at 2q rather than 4q), but it hasnāt gone.
The common problem when you canāt delete everything at the end of flows is that there is something that exists at that position - if not a hidden item of some kind, then it could be that a previous item has duration that extends to the end (like a pedal line).
If signposts arenāt shown (View > Signposts), show them and check for hidden items indicated by signposts. Additionally look at previous items in the flow and check whether they have duration.
Iāve had this happen before. Usually brute force works: add a time signature to that odd bar, or add some final barlines, orā¦ eventually Iāve been able to get rid of it, but when it happens, itās odd.
Can you post the project here and let one of us take a whack at it?
Thank you. I followed Lillieās suggestion and deleted a frame break. It worked, but created a new problem. Is there a way of making this final stave stretch across the page, as it does when there is a framebreak and time afterwards? Itās now shrunk to one side and is squashed up. I believe this would also happen if Danās suggestion worked.
Ah, solved, I found this in Engrave.
Thanks to you both for your time!
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The default setting for the horizontal justification of final systems is here - youāll find that much more comfortable than moving their ends manually!
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This is the ticketāthanks!