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Notation reference
Time signatures
Time signatures indicate the meter of music, and apply to all bars from where they first appear until a subsequent change of time signature. Meter describes the rhythmic pulse of music, and its division into beats and bars.
Time signature styles
Dorico Pro allows you to show time signatures in a variety of styles. For example, you can show denominators as a number or as a note value.
Changing the denominator style of time signatures
You can change the denominator style of individual time signatures independently of your project-wide settings, for example, if you want to show the denominator as a note instead of a number.

Changing the denominator style of time signatures

You can change the denominator style of individual time signatures independently of your project-wide settings, for example, if you want to show the denominator as a note instead of a number.

Prerequisite

If you are in Engrave mode, Graphic Editing is selected in the Engrave toolbox.

Procedure

Select the time signatures whose denominator style you want to change. You can do this in Write mode and Engrave mode.
In the Properties panel, activate Denominator style in the Time Signatures group.
Choose one of the following options:
- Number
- Note
- None

Result

The denominator style of the selected time signatures is changed.

Tip

You can change the denominator style of all time signatures project-wide on the Time Signatures page in Engrave > Engraving Options.

Example


Figure 1. Number denominator	Figure 2. Note denominator	Figure 3. None denominator