Simultaneous time signatures with barlines aligned

[Rob_Tuley]

@tristis

Try doing the first page and a bit and then think how much more quickly you could have done it if you hadn’t had to use triplets.

If you bothered to learn the efficient ways to convert between triplets and non-triplets in Dorico, it takes the same amount of time to convert one bar or 100 pages - about 6 keystrokes.

[pianoleo]

Tristis, I’ve just reread the entire thread in order to see what I was missing.

With the exception of your initial post, you only explicitly address what should appear on the screen. You never talk through the steps of how you expect to interact with the software. If you want to suggest a feature, nobody could possibly expect you to tell the developers how to actually code it, but is it too much to ask that you use the established Dorico lingo?

I’m evidently a bear of little brain but I don’t like to be misinterpreted as deliberately obtuse.

[tristis]

@Rob Tuley

@tristis

Try doing the first page and a bit and then think how much more quickly you could have done it if you hadn’t had to use triplets.

If you bothered to learn the efficient ways to convert between triplets and non-triplets in Dorico, it takes the same amount of time to convert one bar or 100 pages - about 6 keystrokes.

Such hostility (of course you described me as a troll the other day). If you think everything’s fine as it is there’s not much I can say.

I’ve been trying to explain what I meant to those that were struggling to understand it. I think I gave two good examples (the Bach and the Hahn). If you need a more demanding example, I could keep an eye out…

[pianoleo]

My issue certainly wasn’t with understanding what 3/4 against 9/8 was. I’ve certainly played the Hess transcription of Jesu, Joy enough times…

[tristis]

@Daniel at Steinberg

Supporting metric modulations between different time signatures is, and always has been, on our roadmap. Implementing support for specific ratios to make barlines align is just one part of it, of course, and the full plan involves allowing the tempo for each time signature independently, which means that the metric modulation between them can change over time. I don’t expect this to be something we will tackle in the immediate future, but it’s certainly in our medium-term plans.

Thanks for this contribution. I was beginning to doubt my own sanity!

As ever, I’m impressed by your team’s ambition.

Thanks also to mth and Dan.