Merging rest bars
I am trying to figure out how to create a 3 bar rest, place a rehearsal mark at that point and then do a further 4 bars rest etc. Any help would be gratefully received!! Many thanks in advance (this forum never lets me down!! ) . Peter
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Have 7 empty successive measures, place the rehearsal mark at the 4th, press M, voilà
In reply to Have 7 empty successive… by Jojo-Schmitz
Thanks JoJo - I am more after trying to replicate something like this rather than inserting a rehearsal mark!
In reply to Thanks JoJo - I am more… by Peter Koyander
same thing, have a score with enough empty successive measures, place the rehearsal marks, press M
The rehearsal marks are needed to interrupt the multi measure rests. Instead you could also use a special barline, a key or time sig change , a clef change, a staff or system text, or even just set a measure's properties to break multimeasure rests. All prior to enabling them...
In reply to same thing, have a score… by Jojo-Schmitz
Thanks for you advice JoJo - I realized that when I tried this the first time that I didn't have create multi bars rests ticked in my Style settings and so it didn't work when I first tried. Perfect now! Many thanks.
In reply to Thanks JoJo - I am more… by Peter Koyander
One thing I noticed in you picture is that your rehearsal marks look the same as measure numbers. If you don't know, enter the first rehearsal mark with the measure number then use the palette to enter successive rehearsal marks and the will automatically keep measure numbers. As Jojo indicated, enter them with multi measure rests turned off then turn them on and they will automagically be split as you want.
In reply to One thing I noticed in you… by mike320
Thanks Mike - very helpful.
In reply to Thanks JoJo - I am more… by Peter Koyander
still add the rehearsal mark, but use the inspector and make it invisible
In reply to still add the rehearsal mark… by McCabe Compositions
Might also an option, but setting the corresponding measure to break multi measure rests is the more correct solution here, when infact you don't want any visible elemente cause such a break.
And that an invisble element does influence layout is even a bug, so might work now, but may fail later once it get fixed