Hiding/Showing cautionary time signatures

Dorico Pro Help

Product
Dorico Pro
Version
5.1
Language
English
Document type
Webhelp
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fluidtopics

You can hide/show individual cautionary time signatures shown at the ends of systems when time signature changes occur at system breaks, independently of your per-flow setting. For example, to save horizontal space when using additive time signatures. You can do this for the current layout and frame chain only, or for all layouts and frame chains.

Prerequisite

  • The lower zone is shown.

  • Properties is selected in the lower zone toolbar.

  • If you are in Engrave mode, Graphic Editing Graphic Editing button is selected in the Engrave toolbox.

  • You have chosen the appropriate property scope for local properties.

Procedure

  1. Select the cautionary time signatures that you want to hide/show. You can do this in Write mode and Engrave mode.
  2. In the Properties panel, activate Cautionary at end of system in the Time Signatures group.
  3. Choose one of the following options:
    • Hide

    • Show

Result

The selected cautionary time signatures are hidden/shown at the ends of systems. This does not affect time signatures shown at the start of systems.

If the property scope was set to Locally, this change only takes effect in the current layout and frame chain.

Tip

You can hide/show cautionary time signatures by default in each flow independently on the Time Signatures page in Notation Options.