If you have any question or suggestions, please leave a comment below or contact me using the dedicated contact form. Bottom LineĪnd there you have it with this truly final appendix, there is nothing more I can teach you on tuplets in Sibelius. This -0.38 spaces (that is 3/8 of a space) means that the tuplet will look for the next note, and then retract the end of the tuplet’s bracket by 3/8 of a space. The last option is dedicated to when, in the Inspector you select the option to extend the tuplet to the note after it. “Spaces from head of last note”: same as the second field, also meaning “towards the right”.“Spaces from stem of last note”: this works as the first field, just meaning “towards the right”.Also in this case a positive number would mean “towards the left”. “Spaces from head of first note”: it is good to leave it at 0 because it should be flush left with the first notehead.So, this field means “half a space to the left of the first note’s stem”. “Spaces from stem of first note”: assuming the note is downstem, a default value of 0.5 meaning “towards the right” would make no sense, and it would make even less sense if the note were upstem.Positive and negative values here are a bit confusing and I will try to explain them: It is not specified but even if you do not see the bracket, it is there, so it will affect your tuplets as well if you have the “No bracket” option selected in the Inspector. This last category works like the previous one but manages the horizontal distance. Sometimes it is good to have the number and/or the bracket inside the staff, but it needs to be a case-by-case decision. For example, if I add an upbow sign to a note in the previous tuplet and then flip the tuplet above so that a bracket appears, you will see how the upbow sign has been pushed away:Īt the end you find an “Avoid Staff” checkbox and I advise you to keep it checked. Assuming it cannot, this field will push that articulation away from the tuplet’s bracket by 0.91 spaces. There you have some options to decide whether an articulation can go inside a tuplet or not. The third field is a bit more obscure, and it is connected to another page in Engraving Rules called Articulation. The distance is set to double the previous one because of the sheer amount of visual space a notehead occupies compared to a single stem. The second field, set by default to 0.5 spaces, is dedicated to when the tuplet is on the notehead side and needs to avoid it.
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All these values are normally good but, of course, feel free to play with them and see what they bring. The first field, set by default to 0.25 spaces (or the equivalent in the measurement unit you have chosen), tells the tuplet to avoid the stem of the note or any articulation present on it and placed on the same side of itself by a quarter space.
The fourth category, at the top of the right column, lets you manage the vertical distance of the tuplet from the notes. Let’s see this visually.Ĭhange both options to “Head End” (why aren’t these two columns equally ordered escapes me!) and see how the tuplet is now at the “note head-end” of the group. The difference between the left and the right column is to control even further the behaviour of tuplets so that you can have one effect when the bracket is shown and another when it is not, if you so desire. If you leave the defaults, they correspond to as if you had left the first radio button selected (that is, “Position tuplets as if all notes were beamed together”). What does this mean? Well, it gives you more options to control all the tuplets of your piece in a single go. This activates the options below and, by default, they are “Position with bracket: Stem end” and “Position without bracket: Stem end”. Leave this one alone as it is perfectly good as is, but now try to change the first to “Position tuplets relative to first note”. The default is to “Position tuplets as if all notes were beamed together” and “Always above on vocal staves”.
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