Hi everyone,
When I highlight an existing eighth note and to create a 3:2 tuplet (eighth-note triplet), Dorico also grabs whatever is in the next two eighth-note positions and coopts this into the tuplet in order to complete it.
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In this case, is there a way I can highlight just the first eighth note, press “;” and then enter “3:2”, and only affect the music in this one beat without changing anything on the second beat?
Thank you!
George
I cannot replicate this (in D3.5). If I select the eighth and press ‘;’ to create the tuplet, I end up with
Hrm! I wonder if it’s a Dorico 4 thing, or maybe I somehow changed a setting somewhere… 
Tested in 3.5 and 4.0.10 – Yes, I reproduce these differing results.
The 3.5 way would be much preferred.
It took me overnight but now I remember why this has changed: Other times users have complained about the opposite problem, that Dorico ignored the gap after notes when creating a tuplet in Insert Mode.
So now Insert Mode has new features and behaves more consistently: For the OP’s desired result, select the 16th rest, type Shift-Alt-I to set the stop position, then create the triplet, and the following notes are protected from being subsumed.
Ah of course! I thought I could only use that stop bar only in insert mode. Thanks!
@dspreadbury Is there a way Dorico can make this work without this workaround? This problem with grabbing the next beat happens to me all the time.
I must be stupid. I can’t get this to work.
Edit: Ah, setting the stop-bar correct. Hurray!
Now, I just need to figure out how to get it away.
Drag it up, it should disappear.
The same key-combo that created it will toggle it off.
Thanks! Yes, got it.