As it turns out, I had to do this once. The only way I could find was to make 
the eighth a "1 quarter in the space of 1 8th" tuplet and add the beamlet as a 
Smart line. It looked pretty good, actually.

Christopher


On Sun Mar 10, at SundayMar 10 10:47 PM, Darcy James Argue wrote:
> 
> As for the question of adding a beam stub (instead of a flag) to a single 
> eighth, I'm afraid I have no idea, but Jef probably has a good kludge.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
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> On Mar 10, 2013, at 10:13 PM, Dennis Bathory-Kitsz <[email protected]> 
> wrote:
> 
>> Hi all,
>> 
>> Pretty quiet this weekend. I gave up on the percussion request and did it the
>> 'old way' again.
>> 
>> In any case, Finale 2011. Here are two images.
>> 
>> The first is a graphical kludge of a tuplet across a system break -- I 
>> created
>> a tuplet and hid some contents and extended the beam. But of course it 
>> doesn't
>> play correctly, and won't work even visually where there's only one beamed
>> note on either side of the system break. The beam over barlines plugin
>> requires that the original already exist correctly on both sides of the
>> barline.
>> 
>> <http://maltedmedia.com/images/finale/tuplet-across-system-break.jpg>
>> 
>> The second is an interrupted beam -- here, a pair of eight notes broken by a
>> different set of notes (any kind). I have many of these to do. Again, a
>> non-kludgy way that plays back. I've never found a way to add a beam to a
>> single eighth (or smaller) note; it always reverts to a flag. Is there an
>> obvious solution?
>> 
>> <http://maltedmedia.com/images/finale/interrupted-beam.jpg>
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> Dennis
>> 
>> 
>> 
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