To Use the tuplet tool - enter your first 16th, then click on it with tuplet tool, describe the 5 to 4, then go back, enter the rest of the figure and edit it as you wish.
I have not tried 2014 yet, though. The above is how it works in 2011. Raymond Horton Bass Trombonist, Louisville Orchestra Minister of Music, Edwardsville (IN) UMC Composer, Arranger VISIT US AT rayhortonmusic.com On Thu, Jan 2, 2014 at 6:36 AM, David H. Bailey < dhbai...@davidbaileymusicstudio.com> wrote: > On 1/2/2014 1:42 AM, Klaus Smedegaard Bjerre wrote: > > Bad spelling, too, by me after a long night of work. > > > > In Finale 2014 on my desktop Mac I enter tuplets in Speedy Entry. > > > > Pressing alt+5 I enter the first sixteenth and the the next ones. If you > want a 5/16 tuplet, you have to enter a sixteenth as the first note to tell > Finale the denominator. But you may edit the length of that first note > after it has been entered. > > Klaus > > > > > I just did it and it works like you want, assuming that your original > message about wanting a dotted-8th/8th combination to be the quintuplet: > > In Speedy Entry: > 1) hit ctrl-5 > 2) enter a 16th-note > 3) move the cursor back onto the 16th-note and change it to a dotted-8th > 4) enter the 8th note > They both showed up with the quintuplet bracket. > > You don't need to use the tuplet tool at all. > > > -- > David H. Bailey > dhbai...@davidbaileymusicstudio.com > http://www.davidbaileymusicstudio.com > > _______________________________________________ > Finale mailing list > Finale@shsu.edu > http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale > > _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
