Hi there,
I’m relatively new to Dorico. All has been going relatively well so far!
However, I’m still getting my head around the behaviour of ties and groupings.
For example, this is a rhythm that I would like notated as a dotted minim, tied to a dotted quaver (that is beamed together with the last semiquaver):
I understand there is the “Forced Duration” route… however, before I go there…I’m looking at the “Notation Options/Note Groupings” menu and I’m not having any luck suggesting the correct option…
Welcome @chebu.
You could (force) note groupings like this using the meter popover. shift-M [3+1]/4 will force Dorico to consider the last beat of the bar separately, which will give you what you want. But it might have adverse consequences elsewhere.
A number of users have asked for the ability to prefer a single longer dotted duration rather than splitting at the half-bar in this kind of situation, and it’s on our backlog to provide an option for this in future versions.
