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Beacon Chris
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Post by Beacon Chris » Thu Nov 24, 2016 1:16 am

For some reason, I can't do this. I select the measure I want to insert the repeat, I click on the mid measure repeat tool and this is what i get:

Please select a region including one or two partial measures. If partial measure selection is not possible, make sure that you have selected the Mass Edit tool and that Select Partial Measures is turned on in the Edit menu.

Any clues?


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Post by miker » Thu Nov 24, 2016 2:19 am

You have to select the region, including at least one PARTIAL measure. In the attached example, I selected the last two beats of m. 1, and all of m. 2.
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Post by Beacon Chris » Thu Nov 24, 2016 2:27 am

Yes, I did this, but it's not working for some reason. What I want is to split a measure with a special repeat sign that has bars in the middle and dots on both sides.

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Post by miker » Thu Nov 24, 2016 2:47 am

In that case, split the measure with the Split-Measure plugin. Use invisible barline, and uncheck "move second part of measure to next system."

Then, you can select each half of the measure separately, and apply the repeat barlines as an additional operation.
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Post by Beacon Chris » Thu Nov 24, 2016 3:34 am

thank you!

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