This is a bug in Finale's copying algorithm. For some reason it quantizes and "simplifies" tuplets when it copies. It's actually worse than this. Try entering a double-dotted half, then use the tuplet tool to make it worth 5 8ths instead of 7 eighths. When you copy that measure, it is is copied as a half note worth 5 eighths!
There is no workaround and it is extremely frustrating. You can use my Mass Copy plugin to copy the tuplets, but it won't change the quarters to eighths. Looking at what you are trying to do, I'm wondering if it all wouldn't be easier to change the quarter-note symbol in Doc options to a half note. Then you wouldn't have to fool with tuplets at all. On Mon, Oct 2, 2017 at 12:59 PM, dc <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm doing a Charpentier piece that uses void notation: all the notes are > void or white, and therefore there are no quarter notes, since they > would be identical to half notes. They become eighth notes. So, I enter > them as eighth notes, change the noteheads and then define them as worth > quarter notes with the tuplet tool. All is fine, except that when I copy > or drag this void notation from one staff to another (without any > filter), the single eighth notes lose their flags. See an example here, > where the last five measures of the top staff are copied from the second > staff. > > https://www.dropbox.com/s/qa68ro6g7z5a47z/2017-10-02_195058.jpg?dl=0 > > Does anyone know what causes this, how it can be avoided, or how it can > be easily repaired? Of course, I can go change them back to eighths and > then retuplet them, but there are quite a few! > > Thanks. > > Dennis > Finale 2008 > _______________________________________________ > Finale mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale > > To unsubscribe from finale send a message to: > [email protected] > _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] https://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale To unsubscribe from finale send a message to: [email protected]
