Forcing tuplet brackets to be horizontal

You can change the angle of individual tuplet brackets so that they appear horizontal, independently of your project-wide setting. You can do this for the current layout and frame chain only or for all layouts and frame chains.

Prerequisite

  • 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

  1. Select the tuplet brackets whose angle you want to change. You can do this in Write mode and Engrave mode.
  2. In the Properties panel, activate Force horizontal in the Tuplets group.

Result

The selected tuplet brackets appear horizontal when the property is activated. If the property scope was set to Locally, this change only takes effect in the current layout and frame chain.

When the property is deactivated, the selected tuplet brackets follow your project-wide setting for angled tuplet brackets.

Tip

You can change whether all tuplet brackets can appear angled or always appear horizontal project-wide in the Brackets section of the Tuplets page in Engrave > Engraving Options.