Triplett abreviation

[John_McWilliam]

Dorico Pro 1.5 under Windows 10/11.

I want to input the following into dorico:

The time signature is 2/4. As you can see there are six semiquavers to the beat and instead of writting them long hand I want to be able to abreviate them into a quater note with two strikes across the stem. I can’t work out why the example shows a dotted quater note! I enclose my attempt which is wrong.
Test_1.dorico (526.1 KB)
John

[LAE]

If you start a tuplet with 3e:2e and then enter your dotted quarter, it should work.

And the reason is that the dotted quarter equals two dotted eights, that are the tuplets duration.

[John_McWilliam]

For me a dotter quarter equals three eights. I am looking for 6 16ths. to fit into the quater rest ( see snippet)
John

[Janus]

@John_McWilliam

I am looking for 6 16ths. to fit into the quarter

For simplicity you would use ; 6:4x (6 16ths in the time of 4 16ths, as there are 4 16ths in a quarter. x is the Dorico code for 16ths (h=half, q= quarter, e= eighth, x= 16th, y= 32nd, z=64th)

That said you could equally use ;3:2e which has the identical musical affect.

[asherber]

If you do this:

Then the players will likely play 4 16ths on the second beat, instead of two 16th note triplets.

The original notation is meant to indicate that the triplets continue, and then way you get a dotted quarter in that single quarter space is to use a tuplet, as @LAE indicates. (And then you can hide the number.)

[charles_piano]

@John_McWilliam

I am looking for 6 16ths. to fit into the quater rest

As @Janus, @asherber and @LAE are saying, it works by entering an eighth triplet.

But if, for any reason, you want to keep the tuplet numbers (as it is in your file), then the correct notation should be:

…which you can achieve by entering a 16th sextuplet (6:4x)