How do you put a 3 on a note?

How do you put a 3 on a note?

It looks unnatural without it
2025-01-15 07 56 58

If it’s a tuplet (which it is, right?) then it should happen automatically, depending on your Engraving Options.

Are these quavers in a simple or compound meter?

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hello Murray

its not tuplet …

Well it’s only going to display a tuplet number if it’s a tuplet.

Perhaps you could enter the quavers as a tuplet by entering 3:3 in the tuplet popover? (3 quavers in the space of 3 quavers)

On an engraving note, and sorry to be that guy, but it really isn’t unnatural to see the three quavers without a number in a compound meter. The opposite, actually.

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Just in case there is some confusion with the terms being used:

The term tuplet is derived from the ending used in quadruplet, quintuplet, sextuplet, etc., but is used as a generic word to also include duplet and triplet. It’s roughly analogous to using the term cycle to cover unicycle, bicycle, tricycle, etc.

(PS His name is Daniel)

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Just call me Fred :joy:

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(Sorry for the late night, totally OT, and bad joke based on my bad English pronunciation… :smiling_face: time for bed )

Here the Dorico file, just in case…

tree on a note.dorico (1.4 MB)

Jokes apart, @Madonna2025, can you explain a little more what are you trying to obtain? Could you please share a screenshot of an example, if you have some printed music that looks as you would like?

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As in Fred Murray from the television series My Three Sons?

Molto apologetic edit:
I’ve just now consulted Wikipedia for information on Fred Murray. My memory failed me (not the first time!!) - his name is actually Fred MacMurray.

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I read all posts in my Australian accent (apart from the other Daniel’s) and so that one took me a while before I remembered you are Italian…

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If it is for violin, it could be the fingering…

Or Giselle.

Jesper

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Excellent ! We can also imagine an organic apple… :rofl: