selecting part of triplet is not possible
selecting part of triplet is not possible
Message is:
"Please select the complete triplet and retry the command"
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selecting part of triplet is not possible
Message is:
"Please select the complete triplet and retry the command"
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Right. And by design.
In reply to Right. And by design. by Jojo-Schmitz
Why by design? I see it more as a limitation than a "design"
In reply to Why by design? I see it more by frfancha
Copying (actually cutting and pasting) partial tuplets would cause corrupt scores
In reply to Copying (actually cutting and by Jojo-Schmitz
When you paste a quaver in crotchet, the crochet is shortened to leave room for the pasted quaver.
It seems to me that the same can be done when you paste a part of a triplet.
Note that even when a full triplet is selected, you can't paste it on the first note of another triplet.
Message:
"Cannot paste into tuplet"
So, for a score mainly written with triplets, it requires to delete the target before you can paste.
A strange restriction.
In reply to When you paste a quaver in by frfancha
The duration of a crotchet outside of a triplet is different than the duration for one inside a triplet. It also has something to do with the way they implemented tuplets. I'm not sure about the internals, but the math in calculating tuplets causes rounding errors and sometimes even prevents copying an entire measure with some tuplets.
In reply to Why by design? I see it more by frfancha
Some things you might want to do with a partial tuple are tehcnically possible to do, other things not. So, you can *select* a partial tuplet, so that for example you can transpose the notes, add articulations, replaces the notes with rests, tweak the notes in the Inspector, etc. But *copy and paste* of partial tuplets is problematic - you can just copy two thirds of a tuplet to an arbitrary place in the score and have that make rhythmic sense. So, *selecting* a partial tuplet is allowed, but *copying* is not.
And yes, there are certain places where it might technically be possible to paste a partial tuplet, and in theory,m we could wait to complain until you actually do the paste, determing then if it is possible or not. But actually implementing it that way and catching all cases that could cause problems is much harder than you might think. And if we miss such a case, your score gets corrupted. So the safer solution is to disallow all such copy/paste operations, to reduce the risk of corruption. Yes, this is a limitation, but anyhow, it is "by design" in that we made the choice deliberately, to reduce the risk of corruption.
In reply to Some things you might want to by Marc Sabatella
Ok I understand the explanation.
And it explains also why you can't paste in the middle of a triplet.
The most annoying restriction is that you can't paste a selection (with no triplet or only full triplets) on the first note of a triplet.
In reply to Ok I understand the by frfancha
Sure you can - just delete the existing notes first. They'd have been replaced anyhow. It's only a single extra keystroke. But sure, it would be moderately useful to save the one keystroke if we did that automatically.
In reply to Sure you can - just delete by Marc Sabatella
<< only a single extra keystroke >>
No because it requires that you select the '3' with the mouse to delete it, or that you select the 3 notes of the triplet and delete the three notes at the same time.
In reply to << only a single extra by frfancha
OK, sorry, I was under the impression you had selected the entire passage already. I think I'm confusing this thread with another that included an animated GIF showing that. Anyhow, OK, a couple of extra keystrokes.