[A version of this post was earlier tagged onto Beaming over rest without stemlet but I’ve separated out the different issues here and deleted my earlier post]
In the example below I want the beaming of the four-eighths-groups to look like:
I get that to have the beam extension I need to invoke stemlets and then hide those stemlets individually. That’s a drag but not the end of the world.
Here though, when I use right-click Force Stemlet Beam (as below in the scond part of the bar) I get my stemlet over the eighth-note rest, but also a stemlet over the dotted-sixteenth rest, which I don’t want and, as a consequence of that, an extra sixteenth beam that I don’t want and can’t get rid of.
What I can’t figure out is how to persuade Dorico to allow me a stemlet over the eighth-note-rests but not over the dotted-sixteenth rests.
I can’t use the Notation Options>Beam Grouping>Allow rests within beams over rests and at start and end of beams because it puts extra beams everywhere where I don’t want, which I can’t selectively remove.
I can’t have different beaming options for different instruments.
Nor can I change the beam-grouping rules globally just for a few bars without making a new flow.
Going round in circles here, any tips much appreciated
I created a new notehead set containing an eighth notehead which looks like an eighth rest. Then I added eighth notes on beats one and five, changed their noteheads to use the new notehead set, and hid their stems in engrave mode.
