typeset small notes

[rjawad1]

any advice on how to typeset something like this where there isn't a fixed number of notes per beat in one hand? a bunch of small notes.

[miker]

It looks like they are (sort of) aligned on the beat. If the math didn’t add up easily, I would do it as a series of tuplets, fitting them in groups to align with the beat. Do them as full-size notes, and then reduce them in size.

[John Ruggero]

You enter them as regular large notes first. You will have to count them up and make them a tuplet, in this case x number of 16ths in the time of 12. Then select the notes that you want to make smaller and use the resize tool to reduce their size.

[rjawad1]

ok, great. thank you. the resize tool: is that utilities -> change -> note size?

[Peter Thomsen]

No, that is not the Resize Tool, but you are on the right track; the Utility is faster than the Resize Tool.

On the Main Tool Palette there is a Resize Tool, but it resizes one item at a time (notehead, note, staff, system, page).

[motet]

Rather than a tuplet, you could give that measure an independent time signature with a staff style.

[John Ruggero]

Sorry, definitely easier to use the change note size Utility to change the note size as suggested.

However, if they are all beamed together as in your example, you can click on one (stem or beam, not note head), and the resize tool will resize all of them at once.

The original has all the left hand notes on a single eighth note beam, ungrouped. An editor has added the second beam and grouping.