There are some weird notation issues happening in 5/4

Dorico
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Hi all,

I have started using Dorico these last few days, and when I am writing in 5/4 it automatically groups the beams together instead of showing the beat like I want it to. There will be some examples attached.

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Is there some sort of setting I can change to make it so my music always ONLY shows the beat? Specifically in Picture 3, I have my 16th note tie on top in a bar of 4/4, which helps show the exact length + beat to the performer, but when it switches to 5/4 you can see on the bottom it just always turns it into an eighth note.

Help!

2

Welcome to the forum, Eickso. Try re-creating the time signature by typing [1+1+1+1+1]/4 into the Shift+M popover.

3

Didn’t work for me either back when I reported it. Just got 1 big beam.

The example project is still in that post

4

Make sure you also set the option to break beams at beat boundaries (the very first option on the Beam Grouping page in Notation Options).

5

that did it. There are two sets though… with half-bar, without half-bar.
I still don’t think this should require a global notation options change though, but it works. thx.