What is the easiest way to change figure A. into figure B. given
that there are notes before and after and that tuplets behaves a
bit odd (to me 
) when you edit them.
Is there a way to automize somehow?
(I tried to include a small image)
Thanks
The first problem I see here is that—assuming G-clef—the F-sharp and the C do not have the same value, so the two figures cannot be equivalent.
For my curiosity, why are your stems almost centred over the notehead?
Thank you for your answer.
Yes, I know they are not mathematically equivalent. It’s an effect of using Python programming and exporting to musixml and the way it ends up imported in Dorico (longer story how musicxml and tuplets are behaving we doesn’t need to go into here).
Nevertheless I would like to change figure A. into figure B and learn the easiest way
to do it.
For the placing of the stems I don’t know, I did not notice when I made the
screenshot. They does not look so in Dorico and on my printed copies,
maybe there is some screenshooting magic going on in the background from
the OS.
Add the insert stop bar to the following barline (shift-alt-I)
Engage insert more (I)
Change note durations (Select the F# press 5 right arrow 5 right right dot)
Create tuplet (Select F# press ; enter)
Remove insert stop bar (Click and drag it off the page)
Disengage Insert mode (I)
(Personally, I’d probably just delete the original and re-enter the correct notes)
Thank you.
I think your right. I was just looking for an easy way out.
I will check these ‘insert’ stuff out.
Having a hard time stumbling on how to edit tuplets, have not got how to change
them without rythmic values jumping all over the place yet. Guess i will see the
light ome day
Input 3:2e in the popover to make sure you want three 8ths in the time of 2.
Incidentally, your stem positions are a little ‘off’. What font are you using?
Thank you! I will play with these, insert and popover and eventually get
some hang of it. Somehow I don’t get the logic behind it. Tuplets makes rythms jump back and forth in a, for me, odd way. Can’t remember I had these problems in Sibelius or Finale, but thats some time ago now.
Sometimes I just want to change whats happening inside one quarternote in a bar but changing the tuplet makes a lot of notes jump.
A word of warning about selecting tuplets: it’s easy in Dorico to select notes without having selected the tuplet definition as well. If tuplets are hidden, make sure the signposts are not hidden and also selected. If you don’t do this, any operation will treat the notes as though they aren’t tuplets, which can make a royal mess of things.
Thank You.
It’s really worth considering, I’ll play with it.