I thought I'd bring up something that I haven't seen mentioned (it
may have come up before and I didn't notice) in hopes of saving
others some time and potential frustration.
In working on a score in 2008, I found myself using Command-F to flip
tuplets from above to below or vice versa, but in doing so, I noticed
that their color changed, indicating that they had become unlinked.
Sure enough, on examining the part involved, they were also orange,
but still in their original (unflipped) position. I called tech
support, thinking that this was a bug and that nothing should become
unlinked by virtue of moving it in the score. He confirmed he had
seen this and suggested that I control-click on the handle of the
tuplet(s) involved and use the contextual menu to relink it, which
worked.
I had found that this could also be accomplished by going to
Utilities > Change > Tuplets and making the adjustment there instead
of using Command-F, and they would flip without becoming unlinked,
but it was more mouse clicks than I'd prefer to have to make.
What I've just discovered now is that my mistake was in using the OLD
keyboard equivalent of Command-F instead of the NEW one which
involves simply hitting the letter F with the tuplet handle selected.
That will flip it without unlinking it.
I had been doing the same thing with slurs, with the same unwanted
result, until I found that hitting ONLY the letter F works for them
as well. The even better news here is that it can be done immediately
after creating the slur, since it's still selected at that point.
Forgive me if this is old news for some, but it's another case of a
command having been changed that slipped completely under this long-
time user's radar. Hope it helps someone avoid a similar waste of time.
Doug Walter
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