This table gives equivalents for EVPUs, spaces, inches centimeters, millimeters, points, and picas. (There are 288 EVPUs - ENIGMA Virtual Page Units - per inch. A space is the music engraver’s unit of measurement - the distance between two staff lines.)
|
EVPUs |
Spaces |
Inches |
CM |
MM |
Points |
Picas |
|
24 |
1 |
.083 |
.212 |
2.12 |
6 |
.667 |
|
1 |
.042 |
.0035 |
.009 |
.09 |
.25 |
.042 |
|
288 |
12 |
1 |
2.54 |
25.4 |
72 |
6 |
|
113 |
4.708 |
.392 |
1 (.997) |
10 |
28.25 |
2.3622 |
|
11 |
.458 |
.038 |
.1 (.097) |
1 |
2.75 |
.2362 |
|
4 |
.167 |
.014 |
.035 |
.35 |
1 |
.083 |
|
48 |
2 |
.167 |
.423 |
4.23 |
12 |
1 |
Finale also uses its own units of rhythmic, or durational, measurement: EDUs, or ENIGMA Durational Units. There are 1024 EDUs per quarter note. The following table provides EDU equivalents for use on those occasions when you need to perform conversions of rhythmic value into EDUs in Finale.
|
Rhythmic value |
EDUs |
Rhythmic value |
EDUs |
Rhythmic value |
EDUs |
|
double whole |
8192 |
quarter |
1024 |
dotted 32nd |
192 |
|
dotted whole |
6144 |
dotted eigth |
768 |
triplet sixteenth |
171 |
|
whole |
4096 |
triplet quarter |
683 |
32nd |
128 |
|
dotted half |
3072 |
eighth |
512 |
dotted 64th |
96 |
|
half |
2048 |
dotted sixteenth |
384 |
64th |
64 |
|
dotted quarter |
1536 |
triplet eighth |
341 |
dotted 128th |
48 |
|
half note triplet |
1365 |
sixteenth |
256 |
128th |
32 |