You can show individual tuplet brackets and tuplet numbers/ratios above or below the staff or between staves. You can do this for the current layout and frame chain only, or for all layouts and frame chains.
Prerequisite
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The lower zone is shown.
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Properties
is selected in the lower zone toolbar. -
If you are in Engrave mode, Graphic Editing
is selected in the Engrave toolbox. -
You have chosen the appropriate property scope for local properties.
Procedure
- Select the tuplet brackets and tuplet numbers/ratios whose staff-relative placement you want to change. You can do this in Write mode and Engrave mode.
- In the Properties panel, activate Placement in the Tuplets group.
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Choose one of the following options:
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Above
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Below
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Cross-staff above
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Cross-staff below
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Result
The placement of the selected tuplet brackets is changed. If the property scope was set to Locally, this change only takes effect in the current layout and frame chain.
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Deactivating Placement returns the selected tuplets to their default placement.
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You can also switch selected tuplets between being above/below the staff or cross-staff above/cross-staff below by pressing F.
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You can change the placement of all tuplet brackets relative to vocal staves project-wide in the Placement section of the Tuplets page in Engraving Options.