Finale Forum

Thank you all for the insight into this problem! I have decided to go with using Peter’s solution and adjusting the broken beam length to split the difference between perfect slash lengths (.5 spaces, ie 12 EVPUs) and the default broken beam setting (.75 spaces, ie 18 EVPUs). I decided to go with 14...

Motet, thank you for the suggestion on the beam extension sub tool. Unfortunately, it seems like I can only access the outer secondary beams/slashes. I can't find a way to change the inner beam/slash. The tool only changes the ends of the whole "beam group". parallel-slash-beams-beam-extension-tool-...

Here are the results of doing both methods suggested by motet and Peter Thomsen. Shown in both part and score. 1) In the first measure, I used slashes created with the graphic expression designer, assigned that to a shortcut and then aligned them by hand to the slant of the 8th note beam by placing ...

I am wondering if there is a plugin that would do parallel slash beams (16ths and 32nds) as are common in many typeset published scores as in this example: parallel-slash-beams-example.jpg Using the articulation tool to place slashes like this just doesn't look as good: non-parallel-slash-beams-exam...