Is it possible to mark the 20/4 bar with small indications, as marked in the screenshot (small red lines)?
I believe Dorico can only do aggregate time signatures with dashed barlines, which don’t connect between staves. Could that suit your purpose? I see you have a connecting dashed barline for the main barline. (What does that indicate, different from a solid barline?)
@Klangschmied, here’s maybe an acceptable approach in the direction of what you want?
Write Mode
- SHIFT + M
- Enter
“[4+8+4+4]/4”(EDIT: 1/4|4/4|7/4|4/4|4/4), which will produce — at least on a grand staff — dashed barlines that stay within the staff - Enter whole note, breve, whole note, whole note in some voice
- Change full “real” barline to dashed style
Engrave Mode
- Engage Combine compatible aggregates in the Properties Panel
- Hide the whole notes and breves in the **Properties Panel"
2024 09.04 Klandschmied.dorico (461.5 KB)
I tried coloring the the short mid-measure barlines, but couldn’t get it to “stick.” Fellow Doricians, is that possible?
P.S. — Oops! Sorry about the typo on that Dorico project file, @Klangschmied)
My idea to guide the player to a a somehow more freely improvising in the tempo and to choose one of the suggested notes in the bracket…
no problem, appreciate your suggestion
Yes, I completely skipped adding any of your notes in for the sake of time. What entering the whole notes and breves in some voice (that would then be hidden) accomplished was getting the short mid-measure barlines to show. I didn’t check, though, whether simply adding in the music you have will make that happen anyway, in which case those hidden notes wouldn’t be needed.
CORRECTION: If the first measure is entered as something like 1/4|4/4|7/4|4/4|4/4 (or whatever makes the most sense for where you want the internal divisions), and it applies to the following measure as well (i.e., there’s no time sig flag), then the mid-measure barlines should automatically appear as soon as you enter music in them.
OT: @Klangschmied, I bet you never imagined that your piece would become the basis of a hit new song:
und was ist dann mit meinen Tantiemen 
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