On 12 Feb 2006 at 16:45, Brian Williams wrote: > David W. Fenton wrote: > > > 128th notes not only exist conceptually and can be implemented in > > Finale (as I said in an earlier posts, up to 4096th notes are > > possible in Finale, with 10 beams, being a note of 1 EVPU in > > length), but I've encountered real music that used them. This piece > > by Emanuel Alois Förster has them in its slow movement (URL all on > > one line): > > Here's a really geeky correction to David's otherwise excellent post: > > 4096th notes are 1 EDU -- not one EVPU -- in length. EDUs (Enigma > Duration Units) are used in entering composite time signatures and in > creating/editing music spacing tables. A quarter note is 1024 EDUs, so > a 4096th note would be 1 EDU. > > EVPUs (Enigma Virtual Page Units) are used in placing things precisely > on a page relative to a staff or system. One EVPU is equal to 1/288th > of an inch.
You're absolutely correct, of course. When posting I thought "EVPU or EDU?" and guessed wrong instead of checking. I have often felt that it's a major problem of Finale that knowing about EDUs or EVPUs is anything other than a useless piece of trivia. There are just too many places in Finale where one really needs to know about them, and that's evidence of pretty poor interface design. In this case, citing EDUs has the power to explain why 10 beams are the max, though, so this is not one of those cases that violates the principle of avoiding of leaky abstractions. -- David W. Fenton http://dfenton.com David Fenton Associates http://dfenton.com/DFA/ _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
