The Help page says:
- In Engrave mode, select an item at the rhythmic position where you want to split multi-bar rests.
OK. How do I do that in a part?
The only way is to toggle multibar rests off for that layout first.
Split Multibar Rest is a global function, so you may as well do it from the score layout.
I’m making corrections from marked-up proofs of the parts. There’s likely the same markings on each one, but I won’t know that till I’ve looked through them all.
Having a complete ‘mare’, and the first time I’ve found Dorico really frustrating.
What’s landing at the point of the split? Typically there’d be a double barline or a rehearsal mark or something…
Once you have a split signpost, you can copy/paste it in write mode.
Let’s say you have an 8-bar multi rest and want to split it half way.
In write mode. Select the multi rest. Shift-N, command + right arrow 4 times and paste the split signpost.
Jesper
If you need different multibar rest configurations in different parts, Shift+X text with a single space right on beat 1 will break them too. If you use the Spacebar space, and not a non-breaking space, you’ll get a signpost, so it’s easier to remember what you did.
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I’ve been looking for this.
Is this the only way of doing this, or do you know if I can set it to a fixed number?
It’s not possible to automatically split multi-bar rests at the moment.
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Okay, thanks for the quick response.
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@jesele – Agreed. This is the usual way I do it. I found out about this little “gem” a few years ago… [thanking @pianoleo here!] that you don’t have to have multi rests turned off in order to get to the correct measure and beat in order to input something (usually a note, in my case).
Hi @FredGUnn, this is a fairly good workaround. I have a section in a vocal part where it is non-rhythmic spoken text and therefore no notes. To make room for the spoken text I need to split the MM rest in separate measures, a section of about 8 measures in one single part. Your proposal works well for this purpose. One additional question: can I get rid of the “1” for the whole rests for these 8 measures as well? Not a big thing but it would look better.
Engraving Options > Rests > Multi-bar Rests > Bar count for single bar rests
Note that this applies to the entire project.
OK, but as I wrote I do only want to apply this for these 8 measures.
There might be a better way, but if you set the Bar count ofset in Engrave Mode to a big negative number, they ‘fall off the page’ and are not visible anymore
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Ah of course, should have thought about that myself, always using this and adjacent parameters when manually changing multimeasure rests to “Play X” to save horizontal space in drum parts (a functionality I have had on top of my wishlist in all my Dorico history which is fairly substantial now…but no). Thanks!