Splitting multi-bar rests?

Dorico
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The Help page says:

  1. 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?

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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.

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Iā€™m making corrections from marked-up proofs of the parts. Thereā€™s likely the same markings on each one, but I wonā€™t know that till Iā€™ve looked through them all.

Having a complete ā€˜mareā€™, and the first time Iā€™ve found Dorico really frustrating.

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Whatā€™s landing at the point of the split? Typically thereā€™d be a double barline or a rehearsal mark or somethingā€¦

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Once you have a split signpost, you can copy/paste it in write mode.
Letā€™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

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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, youā€™ll get a signpost, so itā€™s easier to remember what you did.

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Iā€™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?

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Itā€™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 ā€“ Agreed. This is the usual way I do it. I found out about this little ā€œgemā€ a few years agoā€¦ [thanking @pianoleo here!] that you donā€™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).

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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 ā€œ1ā€ for the whole rests for these 8 measures as well? Not a big thing but it would look better.

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Engraving Options > Rests > Multi-bar Rests > Bar count for single bar rests

Note that this applies to the entire project.

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OK, but as I wrote I do only want to apply this for these 8 measures.

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There might be a better way, but if you set the Bar count ofset in Engrave Mode to a big negative number, they ā€˜fall off the pageā€™ 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 ā€œPlay Xā€ 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 nowā€¦but no). Thanks!

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Thereā€™s actually a much simpler way to split a multi-bar rest. Just place the cursor at the beginning of the bar where you want to split it and insert a single barline. Voila, it splits it.

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But be awareā€¦ adding manual barlines can lead to unexpected consequences if you need to change time signatures. Better to use Engrave>Split Multi-bar rest

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But note that that function affects all layouts, which may not be the desired outcome.

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Ahhh, good to know!