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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 appearance of common/cut common time signatures
You can show individual common/cut common time signatures with either common/cut common symbols or with a numerator and denominator, such as 2/2 or 4/4.

Changing the appearance of common/cut common time signatures

You can show individual common/cut common time signatures with either common/cut common symbols or with a numerator and denominator, such as 2/2 or 4/4.

Prerequisite

The lower zone is shown.
Properties is selected in the lower zone toolbar.
If you are in Engrave mode, Graphic Editing is selected in the Engrave toolbox.

Procedure

Select the common/cut common time signatures whose appearance you want to change. You can do this in Write mode and Engrave mode.
In the Properties panel, activate/deactivate Common/Cut common in the Time Signatures group.

Result

The selected time signatures appear with common/cut common symbols when Common/Cut common is activated, and with a numerator and denominator when it is deactivated.

Example


Figure 1. Common time signature symbol	Figure 2. Cut common time signature symbol	Figure 3. Common time signature, appearing as 4/4	Figure 4. Cut common time signature, appearing as 2/2