Changing the separator style of interchangeable time signatures

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Dorico Pro

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4.3

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English

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You can change the separator shown in interchangeable time signatures individually, independently of your project-wide setting.

The lower zone is shown.
Properties is selected in the lower zone toolbar.
If you are in Engrave mode, Graphic Editing is selected in the Engrave toolbox.

Select the interchangeable time signatures whose separator you want to change. You can do this in Write mode and Engrave mode.

Note
In the Properties panel, Separator in the Time Signatures group is automatically activated for interchangeable time signatures.
Select one of the following options from the Separator menu:
- Parentheses
- Brackets
- Equals sign
- Slash
- Space
- Hyphen

The separator style of the selected interchangeable time signatures is changed.

Tip

You can specify the separator style when inputting interchangeable time signatures using the popover.
You can change the default separator of all interchangeable time signatures project-wide on the Time Signatures page in Engraving Options.
Although they might look similar to interchangeable time signatures, aggregate time signatures behave differently. Aggregate time signatures are separated by a + sign, whereas interchangeable time signatures can be shown with six different separators but not a + sign.

Therefore, although you can activate Separator and choose from the available options for aggregate time signatures, the property only affects the appearance of interchangeable time signature separators.


Parentheses separator	Brackets separator	Equals sign separator
Slash separator	Space separator	Hyphen separator