Figured Bass Dotted Duration
This was asked four years ago, but not answered at the time. See https://musescore.org/en/node/198586.
I need to set a figured bass continuation line to a dotted value. Unless I'm missing it, the handbook tells you how to set the figure's duration to a note value (such as 1/2, 1/4, 1/8, etc.) but not how to set it to a dotted value (such as dotted quarter note). I've tried playing around with different combinations of command-5 along with a period (before, after, with or without command key) but could not achieve a duration value of dotted quarter note.
Does anyone know if this is possible and if so, how?
Comments
Wouldn't starting of with 1/4th and then continue with a 1/8th do exactly that?
In reply to Wouldn't starting of with 1… by jeetee
I've tried that. Each continuation you add moves you to a new figure entry box, so I tried entering just the underbar and sure enough you do get an additional continuation for the length of the dot (or whatever). But it doesn't give one continuation line the full length of the dotted note, but two separate lines -- which may be the best I can get, so thanks for the suggestion.
In reply to Wouldn't starting of with 1… by jeetee
Update --- I tried your suggestion again @jeetee and now it works just the way it should. I have no idea why it didn't work before -- but thanks again for your advice.
In reply to Update --- I tried your… by lpoleshuck
Last Update. I promise. For those interested, I have discovered the problem. I had two measures (not contiguous) with the exact sequence of notes and this feature did not work, as I described previously, on the first measure I attempted it. When I later tried it on the other duplicate measure it worked perfectly. The first measure never did work, even after restarting MuseScore, so my work around was to insert an empty measure, re-enter the notes and then the dotted length continuation line worked just fine -- after which I removed the bad measure. Some minor bug in MuseScore I presume, but with an easy enough work around once I figured it out.
In reply to Last Update. I promise. … by lpoleshuck
Any chance you still have a copy of the file with the "bad" measure available?
In reply to Any chance you still have a… by jeetee
Sorry, I didn't save an older copy. I think it has something to do with adding and deleting because I had fussed with the figures in that measure a bit. I wound up adding and deleting different figures with or without continuation lines at least two or three times in the "bad" measure but had not yet touched the identical "good" measure. If it happens again I will be careful to save a version and post it.