Doug Walter wrote:
I thought I'd bring up something that I haven't seen mentioned (it may
have come up before and I didn't notice) in hopes of saving others some
time and potential frustration.
In working on a score in 2008, I found myself using Command-F to flip
tuplets from above to below or vice versa, but in doing so, I noticed
that their color changed, indicating that they had become unlinked. Sure
enough, on examining the part involved, they were also orange, but still
in their original (unflipped) position. I called tech support, thinking
that this was a bug and that nothing should become unlinked by virtue of
moving it in the score. He confirmed he had seen this and suggested that
I control-click on the handle of the tuplet(s) involved and use the
contextual menu to relink it, which worked.
I had found that this could also be accomplished by going to Utilities >
Change > Tuplets and making the adjustment there instead of using
Command-F, and they would flip without becoming unlinked, but it was
more mouse clicks than I'd prefer to have to make.
What I've just discovered now is that my mistake was in using the OLD
keyboard equivalent of Command-F instead of the NEW one which involves
simply hitting the letter F with the tuplet handle selected. That will
flip it without unlinking it.
I had been doing the same thing with slurs, with the same unwanted
result, until I found that hitting ONLY the letter F works for them as
well. The even better news here is that it can be done immediately after
creating the slur, since it's still selected at that point.
Forgive me if this is old news for some, but it's another case of a
command having been changed that slipped completely under this long-time
user's radar. Hope it helps someone avoid a similar waste of time.
Thank you for sharing this with us -- I'm surprised that the tech
support person who was helping you didn't know this (actually, I'm not
surprised by that fact at all, unfortunately).
This is not old news for me, I can assure you, and I very much
appreciate you sharing it with us.
Have you experimented with using just the letter F to flip triplets in
the parts? Do they remain linked, and thus flipped, in the score when
they're edited in the parts this way? It's great to have two ways to
accomplish this, one to maintain the link and one to break the link, and
it will be great if that works backwards from part to score as well as
forward from score to part.
--
David H. Bailey
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