Equivalents

Measurement units

Noteman says: Picas are expressed using the format xpy, where x is the number of picas and y is the "remainder" in points. For example, because there are 12 points per pica, a value of one-and-a-half picas would appear as 1p6 (equivalent to ¼ inch).

This table gives equivalents for EVPUsEVPUs, or ENIGMA Virtual Page Units, are Finale's flexible units of measurement used to calculate the size and spacing of your music, defined as 288 EVPUs per inch or 24 EVPUs per space. You can display the measurements in more common units such as inches, centimeters, points or spaces., points, millimeters, spaces, picas, centimeters, and inches. A space is the music engraver’s unit of measurement, equivalent to the distance between two staff lines.

Durational units

Finale also uses its own units of rhythmic, or durational, measurement: EDUsEDUs, or ENIGMA Duration Units, are Finale's high-resolution measurement for the duration of notes and rests, defined as 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
double whole	8192
dotted whole	6144
whole	4096
dotted half	3072
half	2048
dotted quarter	1536
half note triplet	1365
quarter	1024
dotted eighth	768
triplet quarter	683
eighth	512
dotted sixteenth	384
triplet eighth	341
sixteenth	256
dotted 32nd	192
triplet sixteenth	171
32nd	128
dotted 64th	96
64th	64
dotted 128th	48
128th	32