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Equivalents

This table gives equivalents for EVPUs, spaces, inches centimeters, millimeters, points, and picas. (There are 288 EVPUs - ENIGMA Virtual Page Units - per inch. A space is the music engraver’s unit of measurement - the distance between two staff lines.)

EVPUs

Spaces

Inches

CM

MM

Points

Picas

24

1

.083

.212

2.12

6

.667

1

.042

.0035

.009

.09

.25

.042

288

12

1

2.54

25.4

72

6

113

4.708

.392

1 (.997)

10

28.25

2.3622

11

.458

.038

.1 (.097)

1

2.75

.2362

4

.167

.014

.035

.35

1

.083

48

2

.167

.423

4.23

12

1

 

Finale also uses its own units of rhythmic, or durational, measurement: EDUs, or ENIGMA Durational Units. There are 1024 EDUs per quarter note. The following table provides EDU equivalents for use on those occasions when you need to perform conversions of rhythmic value into EDUs in Finale.

 

Rhythmic value

EDUs

Rhythmic value

EDUs

Rhythmic value

EDUs

double whole

8192

quarter

1024

dotted 32nd

192

dotted whole

6144

dotted eigth

768

triplet sixteenth

171

whole

4096

triplet quarter

683

32nd

128

dotted half

3072

eighth

512

dotted 64th

96

half

2048

dotted sixteenth

384

64th

64

dotted quarter

1536

triplet eighth

341

dotted 128th

48

half note triplet

1365

sixteenth

256

128th

32

 

 

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