How emulate this shorthand for repeated triplets, and emulate organ manuals/registration
I'm just starting to typeset a score for organ that poses a few challenges. Here are the first three bars: 
1. Is it possible in Musescore to indicate the repetition of the triplet chords with some convention like this?
2. How to add the text for "1 2 3, 2 1 2" etc - would this simply be stave text position carefully?
3. Is there any way of emulating the switching between the different manuals (for playback) or - wider question - of changing the organ registration in Musescore at all?
Thanks!
Comments
1 Use tremelos to make the diagonal bar and staff text for the number 3
2 Use lyrics (1 [Ctrl]Space 2 [Ctrl]Space 3 etc.)
3 Possibly but horribly complex as the notation is not standard to begin with,
As underquark mentioned: not automatic and not correct playback, but:
![tripletshort3.png]( "tripletshort3.png")
In reply to As underquark mentioned: not by Pentatonus
Thank you for the replies and the tips. Sounds like you are saying there is no shorthand to achieve the effect on both paper and playback. Maybe I will need to write out all those triplets!
And are you saying there is no control over different organ sounds for playback?
In reply to Thank you for the replies and by crispin
In general, if for some reason it's important to you to have the playback be more accurate than what MsueScore does by default, a solution in many cases would be to mark the notes silent (turn "Play" off) using the Inspector, then add another staff just for playback, enter the notes you want for playback there, then mark it invisible in Edit / Instruments.
As for different organ sounds - if you have a soundfont that provides the sounds you want, and have set it up within MuseScore, then you cange change sounds using the "Instrument" change text from the Text palette. See the Handbook under "Mid-staff instrument changes".
In reply to In general, if for some by Marc Sabatella
Just the "repeat as previous" facility would be great if it was easy to apply this as a user.
In reply to As underquark mentioned: not by Pentatonus
@pentatonus could I ask how you got the lyrics to align left with the dotted minim chord in bar 1? By default my chord centres above the lyrics and in the past I have had to use horizontal adjustment. I'm wondering whether there is an option somewhere to make them always align left?
In reply to @pentatonus could I ask how by crispin
You can force any individual syllable to align left by right clicking it, Text Properties, and selecting the left alignment. Or, to make *all* lyrics left align by default, use Text Style instead of Text Properties.
In reply to @pentatonus could I ask how by crispin
You can force any individual syllable to align left by right clicking it, Text Properties, and selecting the left alignment. Or, to make *all* lyrics left align by default, use Text Style instead of Text Properties.
Also, lyrics beginning with what appears to be a verse number will align left by default. As will lyrics that appear to start a melisma.
In reply to You can force any individual by Marc Sabatella
Thank you for the tips about text alignment.
![Musescore_HowTriplets2.PNG]( "Musescore_HowTriplets2.PNG")
Returning to the OP, I have worked out how to do triplet tremolo, giving correct playback and a notation that avoids using quite as much ink as writing out all the triplets.