Stubbornly irregular measures
Could someone please explain why in the attached example, taken from a score I'm working on (ignore the melody, it's all screwed up anyway), the fourth measure only holds three and a half quarter notes and the fifth measure only three? Measure Properties indicates these are both nominal and actual 4/4 measures and not irregular. I can't think of anything I did to make them irregular, and nothing I do seems able to make them regular. Thanks for any advice.
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It shouldn't happen. If you know how you manage to have these measures, let us know.
To workaround the problem you can select the first broken measure and insert a couple of measure in front of it. Then enter the music in these new measures and delete the broken ones.
In reply to It shouldn't happen. If you by [DELETED] 5
Thanks for the response. I'll use the workaround.
The only out of the ordinary thing I did with these measures was that they were originally copied in from another part of the score, and then the notes were changed. However, the whole score was 4/4 time, and the only irregular measure in it was the first, which wasn't part of what I copied. In other words, I'm sure the measures I copied in were also regular 4/4 measures.
In reply to Thanks for the response. by jcorelis
I've never seen anything like this copying whole measures, but I have occasionally copying a fragment of a measure to a different part of another meaure. Like, taking a 2-beat fragment starting on the "and" of 2 and copying to start on 4, or whatever. Not that this never works, but if there's going to be a problem, it usually seems connected to this sort of thing.
In reply to I've never seen anything like by Marc Sabatella
I might have inadvertently copied part of the measures instead of the whole ones.
In reply to I might have inadvertently by jcorelis
A single click on a blank place inside a measure selects the whole measure.
A single click on one note, then a shift-click on another selects them and all the notes between.
I'm not sure if selecting exactly the same notes both ways produces the same results, but the first way would be safer against accidentally leaving anything out.
-- J.S.
In reply to A single click on a blank by John Sprung
Thanks for the reply; that point wasn't clear to me before.