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shortened, the other bar repeat region is shortened to accommodate this. In some cases,

this means the grouping of the other bar repeat region is changed or it is deleted entirely.

You can undo this action and restore the previous lengths of all bar repeat regions involved.

RELATED LINKS

Bar repeats on page 757

Bar repeat grouping on page 762

Hiding/Showing multi-bar rests on page 778

Hiding/Showing bar repeat region highlights

You can hide/show colored highlights for bar repeat regions at any time, for example, if you want

to show the highlights when inputting music but hide them when engraving.

PROCEDURE

● Choose View > Highlight Bar Repeat Regions.

RESULT

Highlights on bar repeat regions are shown when a tick appears beside Highlight Bar Repeat

Regions in the menu, and hidden when no tick appears.

Bar repeat counts

Bar repeat counts are numbers shown at regular intervals either above or below bar repeats, to

help players keep track of how many bars have passed. The intervals are usually based on typical

musical phrases, such as every four or eight bars.

NOTE

Bar repeat counts are only shown on one-bar repeat regions.

Because bar repeats must start with a fully notated phrase of at least one bar, the bar repeat

count starts from the notated bar rather than the rst bar in the bar repeat region. For example,

the third bar in a bar repeat region shows the count number 4, as that bar is the fourth time the

original notated bar is played. Each bar repeat region has its own separate count.

Bar repeat region with counts shown every four bars

In Dorico SE, you can change the start count of each bar repeat region, how frequently bar

repeat counts are shown, and whether they are parenthesized.