Conversion to Triplets

[konradh]

I am having trouble understanding the logic of what happens when I convert notes to triplets.

In the first two images, you can see that I highlighted an eighth note, clicked the 3:2 icon, and the result was as expected.

There are two things that don’t seem right, however.

1. If I select several notes in different staves (for example, a note in each horn staff) and click a different duration, they all change. In the next two images you can see that I changed quarters to halves.
   
   

This does not work when I select several vertically-aligned eighths and click the 3:2 icon: only the top one changes.
2. The following behavior is stranger.
I wanted to change the straight eighth to a triplet, but look what happened.

If this is a bug, I can live with it; but if Dorico is meant to work this way, I would like to understand the logic.

This is not a big deal, but when you use software several hours every day, it is good to get the workflow as smooth as possible.

Thanks.

[dspreadbury]

It is indeed the case that when you make a selection on multiple staves and create a tuplet, only the first staff will be affected; this is something we would like to implement in future, in line with the other multi-staff editing features Dorico already has.

For the bottom case, when you create triplet eighths there, Dorico “pulls” the first eighth of the half note into the tuplet. If you don’t want Dorico to do that, engage Insert mode before you create the tuplet there.

[konradh]

@dspreadbury , That’s a very clear explanation, Daniel. Thank you.