Additional features for "Override visual duration"
(The "Override visual duration" feature is accessed as follows: With a note selected, it's under Properties > Note > Head > Show more)
As Elaine Gould's notes in the attached excerpt from "Behind Bars" (p.207), secondary voices with not-strictly-correct time values are sometimes used in keyboard music to indicate secondary melodies/countermelodies.
To be able to transcribe such scores, the "Override visual duration" feature should also enable the user to add augmentation dots and/or flags to the note. Those alone won't solve the whole problem, because there would still be the beaming to deal with, but adding those two options should be a relatively simple start.
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Comments
Excellent!
Hoping with everything I have that they add this soon. I'm writing a piano part in 3/4 where some parts of a chord need to be dotted half-notes and other parts need to be a standard quarter and I'm not able to write it as such currently. I tried using the voices feature but it's messy and full of forced rests and everything.
In reply to Hoping with everything I… by Ian Gresley
Hmm, I think you might be confused, from what you describe voices are absolutely the correct way to do this. The original request was about a rare esoteric use case, not simple things like you describe.
If you continue to have difficult using multiple voices, please attach your score and explain in more detail so we can understand and assist better.