To: "Fisher, Allen"
I'm engraving a 4 and/or 5 staff choral piece. One page has manybracketed tuplets on it that have slurs that fall on the same side as
the tuplet bracket sits. I'm unsure where the slurs should be in
relation to the tuplet brackets. My scouring of Read, Ross, and the like
seem to contradict each other.
Are tuplet brackets allowed to fall inside the staff? (as you can probably tell, I do very little with unbeamed tuplets...)
Finale have bracket as default on tuplets, but the 'rule' is the opposite and very clear, the bracket is used to eliminate doubt of which notes belong to the tuplet definition, and not as a general practice. So beamed tuplet should have no bracket at all. It is more elegant to use the slur to indicate the tuplet than to use both slur, tuplet and bracket, that would be like wearing both belt and braces :-) .
To the second question, yes bracket is allowed to go into the staff lines if needed, they can also be used cross staff, you will find it in many nicely engraved score from houses like Heugel & Cie and Boosey & Hawkes, among others, so no problem there.
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