Tip: How to add cautionary sigs at end of flow

Dorico
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I’ve discovered that it is possible to create a cautionary time sig and key sig at the end of a flow, should you need it.

  1. Select the final barline of the flow.
  2. Change it to a thin double bar.
  3. With the bar line selected, add the time and/or key sig change.
  4. With the bar rest selected, use the Shift B popover to delete the bar. (-1).

EDIT: This may be a bit unstable and not recommended… :confused:

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Ben, I don’t know if it’s just me, but this appears to not be stable. If I do the above and save the project, and then close the project and re-open it, the bar rest and double bar that were deleted in step 4 re-appear. Do you experience the same thing?

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hamhm3: It’s not just you; I experience exactly the same thing. Every time that I reopen the project the deleted bar reappears, unwanted and potentially problematical. It would be preferable if the deleted bar stayed deleted.

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Yes, this does seem to be happening. Sorry!

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There is some way to make this stable in a project after awhile, but I haven’t cracked what it is. Obviously, official support in the future would be the most stable, and especially necessary as there’s no analogous operation would could be done for a cuationary meter change, since the meter is at least part of what creates a bar.

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It does stay stable long enough to export, so you could always just create PDFs of the relevant pages.

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This much is true—however I am working on a project which has many attacca flows which I have had luck getting this to stick permanently after a save and quit. I have tried writing down what the correct steps are, but it doesn’t seem to be reproducible in a set way. I have additionally gotten this to work in other projects as well, so I don’t expect it to be project-specific. I can’t get my head around it, but at least for now, I am grateful.

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Pianoleo has a very clever workaround using a anacrusis in this thread: