reposition tuplet number?

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Post by peter4 » Sat Aug 19, 2017 2:36 am

Hi everyone,

Thanks to the amazing help here, I've been able to get cross-staff tuplets up and working. The only problem is that for 2 of them, the '9' and '10' numbers have positioned themselves too high once I dragged the beam using Beam Angle tool. Is there a way of grabbing these numbers and dragging them a bit lower? This is in Finale2008, on a Windows machine.

Thanks a lot!

Peter
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Post by motet » Sat Aug 19, 2017 4:37 am

From the Selection tool, click on the number until there's a small box around it. You may have to click more than once. Then you can drag it down. Make sure you're in the right layer.

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Post by zuill » Sat Aug 19, 2017 4:53 am

Actually, with the Selection Tool, just select the number and move it. No need to get the box.

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Post by motet » Sat Aug 19, 2017 5:06 am

As long as there's nothing nearby like a slur (probably OK here). You'll notice that if you click and drag, the box momentarily appears, then disappears because the mouse key is down.

I wonder why those numbers are where they are. Did you originally put the tuplets on the bottom staff?
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Post by motet » Sat Aug 19, 2017 5:10 am

By the way, Peter, you can angle those tremolo beams if you want, and drag them up and down, with the Beam Angle tool. When you click in the measure a handle appears on each side of the beam. The left one moves the whole thing up and down. The right one moves the right side only, to create an angle.

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Post by peter4 » Sat Aug 19, 2017 6:10 am

Thanks so much all of you! Yes, this is the result of an unimaginably complex (for me) set of operations to create cross-staff tuplets as grace-note groups. The selection tool worked, as long as I avoided some slurs I'd put in. Without you guys, I doubt if I could have figured this out in months!

I have a brief question about the Easy Tremolo tool: this has worked fine for me, but I'm wondering if there's any way to drag the 3 tremolo lines up or down a bit? To position them optimally.

Thanks again,

a grateful Peter

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Post by motet » Sat Aug 19, 2017 6:30 am

Yes, that's what I was talking about in the previous posting. Beam Angle tool.

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Post by peter4 » Sat Aug 19, 2017 6:56 am

Oh I see! This worked great, fantastic! Thanks so much motet!!

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