I have an open bar (marked by an X meter) in a score, but Dorico is treating it like two bars instead of one. When I click in the bar, only some of the notes are selected—either notes in the beginning or end of the bar, depending on where I clicked. There is no barline, and the bar numbers indicate that it s one measure. I’ve tried to add a barline and delete it to make sure it’s reading as one bar, but this doesn’t fix the issue.
Why this is a problem is that I want a fermata on the last note of one of the parts (a solo voice), and I want this to put a fermata on the bar rests in the other parts. But because the open bar is being read as two bars, putting a fermata on the last note doesn’t put a fermata on the other staves, and putting a fermata on the bar rests puts a fermata in the wrong place on the solo voice. No amount of dragging the fermata seems to fix this—once I get past the imaginary barline, the fermata disappears from the empty staves. (This is also causing lyric spacing issues, with the note immediately after the imaginary barline running into the note before it.)
Here’s the other curiosity: I can’t replicate the problem. I’ve tried to export just the flow that is having the issue so I can post it here (I’m working on a large, multi-flow piece), but in the exported flow, the bar is functioning as it should, and the fermata is where it should be. I’ve tried to copy and paste the bar between the document, but no luck: the problem persists. I’m hesitant to post the full score here, but I can if we can’t diagnose what’s going on from my description.
I’m curious what happens if, in a copy of your entire project, you delete the other flows and cut away the measures on either side of the problem spot.
I was able to replicate the problem here, as well as provide a bit more context:
The issue is in bar 19. As I said, the bar seems to read as being two bars rather than one, which means the fermata is either not appearing in the blank measures of the score, or that the fermata is appearing over the wrong note in the solo baritone.
This is only happening in galley view. In page view, m. 19 can be selected as one measure, the spacing is correct, and the fermatas are where they should be; but in galley view, the fermatas in the score disappear, the lyric spacing is incorrect. I’m not sure where the error lies, in galley view or page view; regardless, I think it should appear the same way in both views.
I’m getting the same behaviors. “Death” and the quarter rest after it have to be selected separately from everything before them in Galley View, but are included in the all-bar selection in Page View.
One additional point worth mentioning, though: In Galley View if I select the measure using the System Track, including selecting the box at the right end of the bar in that measure, then everything in the baritone part is selected.
This is due to the vagaries of how galley view works. It splits up the music into chunks of a fixed length, and if a bar is longer than the fixed chunk length, it ends up behaving slightly weirdly in a few instances, like this. It’s something we may address in future, though I can’t say when.
