Problem with roman numeral analysis

[Wheat Williams]

I am following the Harmonic Analysis instructions in the Finale online manual.

I would love to post a URL to this topic but for some reason the Finale Forum tells me that I am not allowed to post URLs yet.

According to the Finale online manual, manually-entered Roman numeral analyses need to be typed in using the Lyrics tool, and the special Finale Numerics font.

I cannot figure out how to enter the Roman numeral analysis symbol for a diminished chord in first inversion. I have attached a diagram.

What Finale does is to superimpose the diminished symbol and the 6 superscript symbol. What I need of course is to have the diminished symbol appear alongside the superscript 6.

What am I doing wrong? Can someone reproduce this and give me a precise sequence of keystrokes to construct the correct symbol?

I'm using Finale 2014d.v5545 on Mac OS X 10.10.4.

[miker]

I don't know harmonic analysis, so I'm not sure what is considered correct. It seems that you can't have the 6 following the o. Could you have the 6 either above or below the o? This, Finale can do.

If you enter Vii, and then Shift+6 and K, you will get what I show as sample 1.

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Vii, Shift+K and 6 will give you what I show as sample 2.

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Note that the number with the Shift is entered from the number row above the keyboard, NOT from the numberpad. This gets it into the upper position.

[Wheat Williams]

@miker, thanks, but neither of those produce the acceptable, correct Roman numeral analysis symbol. It needs to look like my example. Both the diminished symbol "°" and the "6" must be superscripts, alongside each other. If one is made into a subscript, then the symbol you get does not represent a seventh-scale degree diminished triad in first inversion according to what's used in all the standard music theory textbooks.

And for what it's worth, the correct example I provided in the JPG is something I created in Sibelius.

[miker]

You might want to send that in to tech support.

[Peter Thomsen]

You can get the desired layout by entering a ‘not-displaying’ character between the circle and the 6.

I think that character #96 gives a satisfying separation.
In text fonts character #96 is the grave accent, but in the Finale Numerics font character #96 is a ‘not-displaying’ character.

See the attached graphic.

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PS:
Free e-book about the Finale Numerics font:
http://dalsegnomusicservices.com/free-f ... al-e-book/

[miker]

Peter,
Thanks for the solution, and for the link!