Time signatures background and lines

Dorico
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Hello everyone,
I’m currently working on a composition where I have multiple time signatures and some aleatoric boxes. The horizontal line overlaps with the time signatuers, so I toggled the “erase background” option in engraving options. The problem is that it only works from a certain point, covering all the previous time signatures. Any ideas on how to work it out?

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P.s. Those are not indipendent time signatures, the are valid for all of the musicians.

UPDATE: This is what i see when I select the line

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Also, if one resizes the lenght of the line, the covered time signatures change

2

Perhaps independent time signatures would work better?

3

I tried, but it does not work. I’m also trying to input multiple lines, the behaviour is completely erratic.

4

I meant use an indpendent time signature that eliminates the need for all the intermediate global time signatures, so the line effectively covers a single bar.

5

Unless something changed recently.

Jesper

6

Yes. It will be quite time consuming at this point, but I can’t see other solutions.

7

I read this yesterday and thought it might be the answer, so I reckoned that, in the places where the background was actually removed, there might be a slur spanning the two bars across other staves. At first it seemed to be the case, but then I noticed that this wasn’t happening in other places where there were slurs. So I don’t know why it works sometimes and not others.

8

I can’t get it to work at all.

Jesper

9

Neither can I. The line consistently covers the time signatures. What version are you on?

10

I actually have a vague memory that it did work at one time.

Jesper

11

I have Dorico Pro 6.2.30.6245.

12

Same.

Jesper

13

I think it does works, but in my specific case I don’t understand why it works only on certain parts.