I had an issue happening in a big project. I managed to delete everything around it and leave only one instrument and two bars for uploading.
As one sees, the first bar has 3/2 time signature. The second one has the same time sig. as a signpost (that cannot be deleted). Properties say: time signature is hidden. When I unhide the time signature, I get 3/2 also displayed on the 2nd bar. Deleting that results in signpost again and hidden time signature in properties.
Maybe someone can shed some light in why this happens.
Thank you for the solution.
I still keep wondering how can this happen.
Is there one normal barline on top of another.? And still, why the time signature doubling.
They are appearing because according to Dorico you do have a meter change there.
Unlike Finale and some other software, Dorico doesn’t think in terms of bars. When you create a project from File / New, Dorico shows a single quarter rest in open meter. Barlines are a consequence of adding a meter. If you have no meter, there’s no need to automatically create barlines, although the user can plop them in wherever they wish. Once you have a meter, then Dorico will create the barlines using the default style you’ve specified in Notation Options. So barlines and meter are intrinsically related to one another.
A default single barline is therefore NOT the same as an explicit single barline which I assume you have manually entered at some point here. It at some point you had, for example, a double barline, and you changed it back to single, you have explicitly stated that barline should be single. To Dorico, you’ve now overridden the default barline and told it to be single, which is effectively a meter change even though visually the meter hasn’t changed and the barlines appear identically to the performer. Internally to Dorico they are not the same however, as one single barline is default and one is explicit.
Just remember if you ever need to change a barline back to the default style, hit delete, don’t input an explicit single barline, which is effectively a meter change.
This is an excellent point, which I hadn’t thought of when I’ve run into this kind of situation. And it’s consistent with the way Dorico handles implicit and explicit rests.
