Tuplet tool

What it does

This tool on the Main tool palette lets you create, edit, and adjust the positions of tuplets. (The word tuplet describes a class of irregular note divisions such as triplets, quintuplets, or septuplets.) The Simple Tuplet tool found on the Simple Entry palette has similar, but more limited functions. You can use the Tuplet tool to describe a tuplet’s rhythmic definition (how many quarter notes in the space of a half note, for example). See Tuplets for full instructions.

Once tuplets have been added to your score, they intelligently adjust to avoid collision with notes and will follow the contour of the accompanying notation.

Special mouse clicks

• Click the first note of a tuplet to display its positioning handles. There are six positioning handles. Two control the horizontal and vertical length of the bracket. One controls number position. Another controls the position of the entire bracket and number. Two others control the angle of the bracket and the position of the bracket without moving the number.
• Drag a positioning handle to adjust the height and position of the tuplet’s visual elements (bracket, number, and so on). See Tuplets for details on how these handles control the bracket and number.
• Double-click a positioning handle, or control-click the handle and select Edit Tuplet Definition from the contextual menu to display the Tuplet Definition dialog box, where you can change the definition of the tuplet.
• Click the first of a series of notes you want to turn into a tuplet grouping to display the Tuplet Definition dialog box, where you can specify a definition to create a tuplet. You can even click a note that’s part of an existing tuplet grouping if you want to create an inner (nested) tuplet.
• Select a tuplet handle and press delete, or control-click the handle and select Delete from the contextual menu to delete the tuplet.

Contextual menus

Contextual menus are reached by control-clicking on the handle of an object. A contextual menu will be displayed where you can select various items.

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