Hello !
I’m brand new to Dorico (ver. 5), having moved from Finale.
When working with tuplets, is there an option in Dorico 5 that allows tuplet brackets to be slurred, instead of square ? I had this option in Finale (worked with Finale for almost 30 years).
No, there’s not. It’s been discussed in a thread last week (@John_Ruggero ? Could you chime in with your very good solution ?)
It was John Price, in this thread:
Not quite, but it’s close. The number would need to be inserted in the bracket, so I’ll investigate this solution. I was looking for something as easy as the square brackets. But I believe I can do without round brackets until they become available.
Thanks for the quick response. That brings me back to the early days of the Finale Forum, where people were helpful, just like here !
Oh, you mean an actual slur with the number inside it! I have tried it, and it seems prohibitively difficult, if not impossible, currently. Here’s what I tried:
- Made a triplet, and hid the bracket. Slurred the notes, flipped the slur, turned off its collision avoidance, and positioned it.
- Font style attributes (for the tuplet number) do not include “erase background”, so I hid the tuplet number too, and added text with the 3 music character at 24pt.
- Turned on Erase background for that, and reduced the bottom erasure padding to a negative value to stop it whiting-out the staff lines. Looking good …
… until I deselect the text, and then erase background no longer works!
Even if this can somehow be made to work, it is WAY more trouble than it is worth.
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It is possible to create a slur with the number inside it:
Instead of using the Erase background property for the staff text, I entered the Unicode block character U+2586 followed by the SMuFL tuplet character U+E883, making the Font Size of the tuplet character twice that of the block character. With the block character selected, I changed the Foreground Color to red and adjusted the Letter Spacing and Baseline Shift until the tuplet character was centered over the block character. Then I changed the Foreground Color of the block character to white and moved the staff text into the middle of the slur.
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Thanks to all. I’ll try your solutions. They look right!
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Thanks, John! As soon as I posted, I imagined you reading it and saying “Challenge accepted!”
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Sorry, @MarcLarcher I just saw this now. Here is my solution from the previous thread:
Dear johnkprice,
Where did you enter
Unicode block character U+2586 followed by the SMuFL tuplet character U+E883?
Please help me. I can’t get it to work.
I entered the characters as staff text. See this project:
Slurred tuplet bracket.dorico (427.7 KB)
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