Dotted Connected Barlines
How could I make connected dotted barlines like the ones below? This is one instrument, two staves. Thanks.
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This isn't directly supported in MuseScore. It would be a lot of work to enter lines and make them dotted then make them vertical for all of the measures. Then when you did something to change the layout of a measure the lines wouldn't likely stay in the right place. This isn't a common practice so I would leave the lines solid myself.
In reply to This isn't directly… by mike320
Yeah... would be cool if they made them into 3 separate barlines. One for the top stave, one for the bottom and for the connecting, all independent of each other. But I guess it is what it is.
In reply to Yeah... would be cool if… by Nofer Tadros
You can do it by using a line but it's a manual process and, as mike320 says, you need to redo them if the layout changes. I've done it on this score at frets 0, 5, 9 and 12 and did them once the layout was finished. Maybe worth entering as an S5 - Suggestion in the issue tracker since it shouldn't be hard to implement.
https://musescore.com/user/28842914/scores/6361202
It's not clear why you'd want to do this, but I'll assume there is a reason. A fairly reasonable-ish way to go about it would be to extend the barlines between staves normally, make them all dotted, then add the solid barlines to the real barlines as symbols from the Symbols palette. It's several steps per barline, but it should be pretty safe and survive any layout change.
In reply to It's not clear why you'd… by Marc Sabatella
That won't work applying the solid barline will replace the dotted barline unless there is some secret I'm not aware of.
In reply to That won't work applying the… by mike320
No, if you apply the barline from the Symbols palette, it is exactly 4sp tall, positioned directly above the dotted barline, so you just apply a 4sp vertical offset. You end up with exactly what is shown in the picture.
In reply to No, if you apply the barline… by Marc Sabatella
Oop, missed symbols palette.
Using symbols will still come with potential problems. If you do something like add an accidental on the first note, the symbol will move with all of the notes on the first beat of that measure so you need to do this last.
In reply to Oop, missed symbols palette. by mike320
I don't think so. By attaching the symbol directly to the barline, the x offset is always 0. I don't think there is anything you can do that will mess it up.
In reply to I don't think so. By… by Marc Sabatella
anyone have a paper bag?
In reply to anyone have a paper bag? by mike320
:-) In your defense, attaching symbols to barlines is a pretty new feature, I think we only added it around 3.3 or 3.4. So it would have been easy to miss that this was even possible.
In reply to :-) In your defense,… by Marc Sabatella
And I've rarely ever needed to do it.
In reply to anyone have a paper bag? by mike320
that paper bag will be handed to you over in the developers' chat ;-)
In reply to It's not clear why you'd… by Marc Sabatella
The problem is that the barline symbol doesn’t have the same thickness as the ordinary barline (the latter’s thickness defined in Format > Style... > Barlines).
If you’re fine with this situation but don’t want the thicker dots to stick out from behind the solid barline symbol, set the ‘Span from’ to 8 in the Inspector for the dotted barline.
Actually no problem. See attachment. Made with 3.5.1 portable.