In short: I started a flow with 4/4 2 beat pickup bar. Dorico added 4/4 to “used in this flow” tool mouseover shows it as (irregular lenght 2, 4/4 (1, 1+1+1+1).
Problem is that using later a “normal” 4/4 does not get added to the “used in this flow”. Lot’s of mistakes until I remembered that the “used in this flow” is not the 4/4 I expected, sigh.
Maybe there in future versions could be a way to make pickup signatures look different in the “used in this flow” and allow all variations of same time signature to be added to the “used in this flow” menu? Option to remove items from “used in this flow”?
Or, is there already a solution and I missed something?
No, you’re right that Dorico doesn’t currently differentiate between time signatures with different pick-up bars in the Used in this flow section of the panel. This is something we would need to address with a functional change in the software in a future release.
I know it’s been a while since this was discussed, but I wanted to chime in.
I was teaching a lesson in Dorico and I couldn’t understand why the student was running into this same issue over and over where they were getting the wrong time signature until I realized it was the “Used in this flow” section.
I recommend adding a symbol, like an asterisk or something bright, that that denotes that a time signature under “used in this flow” is “irregular” (like a pick-up measure).