That's completely beside the point, Michael, and most unhelpful. It's
not even his piece, it's work he has to do for a client who has very
clear ideas about how he wants it notated. Many of us need to do
unusual things in the course of our work with Finale, even incorrect
things, and we need tactics to accomplish this.
I'm working on this Dennis. Something that might work is creating a
series of nested tuplets, I have entered 15 quarter notes in the space
of 8 quarters, displaying nothing.
Then double click with the tuplet tool over the first note, creating a
nested tuplet of 7 eighths in the space of 4 eighths. This displays
correctly with a bracket and 7:4.
Double click the third note and set it to display as 5 dotted 32ds in
the space of 4 sixteenths. This is not mathematically correct, but it
will display properly as 5:4, the bracket can be eliminated, though on
my machine it doesn't display for only one note.
On the 4th note, only 7 32nds in the space of 4 32nds would display
properly, as I can't get the math to work out perfectly.
No doubt this will NOT play back properly, but at least it will space
correctly.
Keep going like that, and I think it will work out. Kludge, but a
workable one.
Christopher
On Apr 6, 2006, at 1:29 PM, Michael Cook wrote:
Do you know any human musician who can play that exactly as written?
On 6 Apr 2006, at 19:06, Dennis Bathory-Kitsz wrote:
Hi folks,
I have a new client assignment, and it requires partial tuplets. I
can do
this graphically, but it bugs me that I can't figure out a way to do
it so
it's "real". Here's a sample measure description:
Time signature is 8/4.
Measure contains a 7:4 quarter-note tuplet, a 5:4 eighth-note tuplet,
and a
3:2 quarter-note tuplet.
Easy so far, right?
EXCEPT...
The tuplet pieces are separated from each other, with the pieces
spread out
so:
7 7 5 7 5 3 7 5 3 7 5 3 7 5 7
The composer wants each tuplet segment numbered. I can do it all
graphically with a time signature of 25/8 (hidden, showing 8/4) and
numbers
placed above as expressions. I can also do it by creating the tuplets
and
dragging the pieces into place and breaking the eighth-note stem
connections, hiding the tuplet numbers, and placing new ones
graphically.
Neither plays back correctly.
But I just don't like the kluges. Any way to do this as written?
Thanks,
Dennis
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