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PROCEDURE
1. In Setup mode, choose Setup > Layout Options.
The Layout Options dialog opens.
2. In the Layouts list, select the layouts in which you want to hide/show multi-bar rests in
one of the following ways:
Click Select All.
Click Select All Full Score Layouts.
Click Select All Part Layouts.
Click Select All Custom Score Layouts.
Ctrl/Cmd-click individual layouts.
Shift-click adjacent layouts.
By default, the layout currently open in the music area is selected when you open the
dialog.
3. Click Players in the page list.
4. In the Bar Rests and Multi-bar rests section, choose one of the following options for
Consolidate:
None
Multi-bar Rests
Multi-bar Rests and Bar Repeats
5. Click Apply, then Close.
RESULT
When you choose None, no multi-bar rests are shown in the selected layouts. Each empty
bar is shown separately.
When you choose Multi-bar Rests, any adjacent empty bars are consolidated into multi-
bar rests in the selected layouts. However, bar repeats prevent the consolidation of multi-
bar rests, even if there are no other notes in those bars.
When you choose Multi-bar Rests and Bar Repeats, any adjacent empty bars or bars that
only contain bar repeats are consolidated into multi-bar rests in the selected layouts.
Multi-bar rest counts are also shown above consolidated bar repeats.
RELATED LINKS
Bar repeats on page 609
Hiding/Showing bar number ranges on multi-bar rests on page 392
Moving rests vertically
You can change the vertical position of rests individually, for example, if you want to change the
staff line from which a whole bar rest hangs, or you want to show rests for all voices at a
particular rhythmic position.
Moving rests vertically shows multiple rests at that rhythmic position if more than one voice on
the staff has a rest of the same duration. By default, Dorico Elements consolidates rests in
multiple-voice contexts and automatically positions rests in multiple-voice contexts to avoid
collisions.
NOTE
You cannot change the vertical position of rests when using the mouse.
Rests
Moving rests vertically
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