Sorry for all the amount of random questions lately. I’m working on creating a template and stuff for some reason isn’t working out like I think it should. I have repeat brackets set to extend fully over the bar(s). However, they’re not doing that. I’m pretty sure I have the correct settings set for the bracket to be extended over the bar(s) fully. Here’s the file again and a screenshot of the issue.
Landscape.dorico (1.5 MB)
Well, the second ending is only defined as being one bar long, so in this part the bracket only extends for one bar of the 2 bar rest.
It seems like it would be nice if Dorico handled this case automatically and split the multi bar rest at the end of a repeat bracket. In the meantime, you can go to the score in Engrave mode, select the rest in bar 6 (in any staff), and do Engrave > Split multi-bar rest. That will cause multi bar rests in any layout to split at that point.
Edit: Or you can extend the second ending to two bars, but then you may run into the same issue if another part has a rest longer than 2 bars.
Gotcha! So, there’s no setting to force the bracket to fully extend over multi-rests bars, despite me having the correct settings selected?
I don’t believe so, no.
What did you mean by, “Or you can extend the second ending to two bars…”?
That’s what I thought Ash meant, but I wasn’t totally sure. You would think Dorico would automatically extend the bracket over multi-bar rests.
I wouldn’t expect that – the ending has a defined sematic length, and the bracket should indicate that (and should be the same length in all parts, regardless of whether there are notes or rests). But I would expect Dorico to break the multi bar rest in order to display the ending’s semantic length in a more standard way.
Well, thanks for your help as always! Back to testing out other random stuff to make sure this template looks good!
