I’ve read several posts near to this question but nothing seems to work. How can I force Dorico to separate rests, as in this example (made with Finale):
This construction is needed very commonly in lead sheets, so the guitarist knows the number of beats for each chord.
If you have a whole bar rest, select it, press Enter to activate the caret, and press ,, (letter)O, 6, y
, = rest entry
(letter)O = Force Duration
6 = quarter (rest)
y = Enter the rest
Then Dorico should fill your bar with two quarter rests and a half rest (maybe depending on your notation options?)
Note: The solution only works if you have at least two rests in the measure. It does not work to make, for example, a quarter rest in a pickup measure that has one beat.
Can you show a screenshot of what you have, and what you’re trying to achieve? Pickup bars should show the correct number of beats by default.
Unless the file originated as an XML import (in which case it still should, but might not). There was a recent discussion where such a file somehow had a pickup bar act like a multibar rest. The whole rest could be broken in the score but not in the parts.
No way to tell if that’s the case here as well, but since OP referenced Finale I thought I’d mention it.
No, this was not an XML import. But indeed the solution is in the “recent discussion” linked to be @Zalde: Use Dorico’s “native pickup bar functionality”, which means to shift-M and then type in, for example, 4/4,1; then hide the time signature. I think the issue may have been that, since I’ve had trouble with this “native functionality”, I’m in the habit of setting my pickup measures to, for example, “1/4”, then setting the next full measure to “4/4” and hiding both. I made myself a note to stop doing that.
Oh, this is only necessary in Part layouts. Full Score shows the correct rest regardless. Seems buggy. I haven’t gotten around to updating to Dorico 6 yet but I hope this and other bugs are fixed.
It may be due to Layout Options, concerning multi-bar rests…?
There are over 70 listed fixes in the Version Notes, on top of the various improvements and new features.
You will see bar rests if multi-bar rests are enabled. This isn’t a bug. Please try to use the features provided in the software in the way they’re intended, and you’ll find things work more smoothly in general.
I’m surely not getting it, but why hide the time signature? 
