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Thank you Anders for your four different examples. Ex.B does loos clean, but need to go with the composer's wishes of the double lines. I've set the whole thing now as semi-breves with the double outer lines added in as expressions.

It'll have a footnote on the first breve, with the explanation: "To make the score unnecessarily complex, a breve is used to indicate holding a chord for a full measure, no matter its time signature." I think that covers it. In the end, though, I'm doing a job for a composer. If they want a certain ...

I spoke with the composer. He said he isn't the first to use this kind of notation and as the piece is one in a large collection a-la Mikrokosmos, he felt it appropriate to introduce the pianist to it. He uses breves in another composition in the same collection for the same reason. His aim is to in...

Gareth and Motet, I purposefully didn't include the full manuscript, which includes the directions "Molto rubato, free dynamics, con moto". This particular composer does some 'interesting' things, so I'll ask about the breve vs semibreve aspect. I also wondered, but have grown to accept his oddities...

Thank you, Zuill. Yes. That was what I thought was the only work-around.

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I need to move the double lines surrounding a three-note breve chord. At present, Finale sets it as two notes with the double lines either side and the third note with separate double lines. Can anyone please tell me how to move the lines so they encompass all three notes. I've included examples of ...

This utility definity promises to be a tool that allows you to quiicly access all the characters of a font - my aim, so as it has a trial version, I'll give it a go before buying the full version, which isn't too expensive anyway. Thanks for the suggestion, Peter.

It would be really helpful to have the floating keyboard, David, as you suggest, as that is one of the most annoying aspects of these fonts - not knowing which key gives you the corresponding font character. Unfortunately, however, I'm a PC gal, so it would appear, alas, my excitement at the existan...

Thanks David for the hands up on the Stone Sans Phonetic IPA font. I'll try it out, although I've now updated to 2010. The SilDulos fonts do work, but I'm not thrilled with their look and am always on the hunt for something better. I must admit, I've been so snowed under with the writing of my PhD l...

Does your Finale registration apply to only one version at a time? In other words, once you've updated your version of Finale and perhaps you decide you might like to also run the previous version, why does it say that version is no longer registered? You've bought and paid for those products and th...

I've been sent a Finale 2010 file (which I tried to attach but it said .Mus was not allowed??) I need to work on, but can't open it in my version of Finale (2008a). Is it possible and do you have any suggestions please?

Thank you. I think you may have helped me in the past. I have both Doulos SIL and Charis SIL loaded, but still can't seem to get the IPA characters. I'm obviously doing something wrong. If I go to 'insert symbol', none of the symbols are there. Typing on the keyboard doesn't bring up any of the char...

I'm a singer and singing teacher and use IPA fonts with songs and can't access the IPA extensions that exist in the various fonts (insert symbol would work with fonts that offer the extension). Can you help please? Am on a deadline! Thank you.