Tremolo chord in odd meter

Is there any way to make a tremolo chord in a piano part that is in an odd meter?

The chord I want to tremolo is:

Basically I’m just looking to indicate to the performer that it should be “rolled” as it’s the final chord of a piece and the rest of the group has sustained notes. Something like the following (obviously this example is a whole note and wouldn’t fill the entire bar of 5/4)

I’ve tried creating two chords of half notes plus one eighth, but it doesn’t seem to work out. This is what I get:

So, not quite useful.

Thank you in advance for any help.

Depending on what visual result you want to achieve, you can enter the notes as a tuplet and then add the tremolo (and then hide the number and bracket). For example, if you enter two half notes in a 4:5q tuplet, they will completely fill a 5/4 bar; the tremolo will display two whole notes. Or you could enter two dotted halves in a 6:5q tuplet, and then the tremolo will display two dotted whole notes.

Or without tuplets, you could do one 4 beat tremolo between half notes tied to a 1 beat tremolo between 8th notes.

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Another option, perhaps. (No tuplets were harmed in this ex.)

Jesper

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