Is there still no library option for keeping number of tremolo strokes in tie chains the same?

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Hi,
I compose for percussion ensembles a lot (marimba’s and such) and it’s conventional in those spaces to always use three-stroke tremolos to indicate rolled notes (which there are a lot of), regardless of note duration. Dorico’s default behaviour for tie-chains is the classical way: to relate the number of strokes to the rhythmic value of the note. However, this behaviour is counterproductive for the conventions in writing for percussion.

I know of the overrides available in Engrave mode–this, however, is extremely tedious for longer pieces, in which it easily takes me hours to check the whole score for every tied, rolled note, and most of all, it’s easy to miss some of these wrongly indicated notes before the parts go out to my client. And, after all, isn’t it Dorico’s mission to save time on engraving to begin with?

Is there no setting in any of the Library panels that can overwrite the standard behaviour, to save me and my fellow percussion composers hours of work?

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If this is the sort of look that you want, all I did was to select all the notes, press shift-R then 3, followed by Enter.

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However, this doesn’t work for tied notes, which is what @semh is after.

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I did the same as I described earlier.

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These have the same note values or different note values above an 8th note. However, this happens when you try to tie a 4th to an 8th.

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OK. Now that there is a specific example for where it doesn’t work, I understand the problem.

What happens if the tremolo is applied before tying the notes?

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What you can do meanwhile: you select the tied chains and press UT (un-tie, re-tie)

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That was it! It didn’t come to my mind to try the other way around.