Tuplet Tool

This tool lets you create, edit, and adjust the positions of tuplets. (The word tuplet describes a class of irregular note divisions such as triplets, quintuplets, or septuplets.) You can use it to describe the visual appearance of the tuplet (whether or not it has a bracket, for example) as well as its rhythmic definition (how many quarter notes in the space of a half note, for example).

Click the first note of a tuplet to display its positioning handles.

There are six positioning handles. Two control the horizontal and vertical length of the bracket. One controls number position. Another controls the position of the entire bracket and number. Two others control the angle of the bracket and the position of the bracket without moving the number.

Drag a positioning handle to adjust the height and position of the tuplet’s visual elements (bracket, slur, number, and so on). See Tuplets for details on how these handles control the bracket and number.
Double-click a positioning handle, or right-click the handle and select Edit Tuplet Definition from the contextual menu to display the Tuplet options, where you can change the temporal or visual definition of the tuplet.
Click the first of a series of notes you want to turn into a tuplet grouping to display the Tuplet options, where you can specify a temporal and visual definition to create a tuplet. (If this first note is in Voice 2, shift-click below the staff.) You can even click a note that’s part of an existing tuplet grouping if you want to create an inner (nested) tuplet.
Ctrl-click the Tuplet tool, or right-click the handle and select Edit Default Tuplet Visual Definition from the contextual menu to display the Tuplet Definition dialog box, in which you can specify the default appearance of new tuplets you create with the HyperScribe tool. You can also display these options in the Document Options dialog box. From the Document Menu, choose Document Options and select Tuplets. See Tuplet Definition for complete details.
Select a tuplet handle and press delete, or right-click the handle and select Delete from the contextual menu to delete the tuplet.
Press Backspace to reset a selected tuplet to the default settings.

Contextual menus are reached by right-clicking on the handle of an object or right mouse-clicking on the Main tool palette tool. A contextual menu will be displayed where you can select various items.

Edit Default Tuplet Visual Definition

Displays Document Options-Tuplets

Tuplet Handles

Menu item	What it does
Edit Tuplet Definition	Displays the Tuplet Definition dialog box
Flip	Flip the tuplet to the other side of the staff
Delete	Delete selected tuplet

Tuplet tool