Extending secondary beams over rests
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I can't recall if there is a global way. I would just leave the setting alone and manually drag the secondary beams where needed. If there's lots of them, one can copy/paste from one measure to another to speed things up.
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Alas.
It's a huge piece. The latter is more common than the former, but the former would also involve moving rests, so I don't know which to do (if either). I was hoping JW could help.
Thanks.
It's a huge piece. The latter is more common than the former, but the former would also involve moving rests, so I don't know which to do (if either). I was hoping JW could help.
Thanks.
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Barring manual tweaking, it's a mess whatever combination of settings I pick, rests as well as beams.
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Double-click on the handle when in the Beam Extension Tool and choose only 16th for your example.
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The copy filter seems to only work if the stems are pointing in the same direction.
Here's another issue: when the notes are on the middle line, if, after extending the beams manually, you try to move the rest up with Simple entry--mouse or arrow-key nudge--the notes flip and the beam extensions are trashed.
They then can't be flipped back with L--when you do that, they stay unflipped, but the articulations move to the wrong side of the note.
If you try to flip it with Utilities/Stem direction, you get a real mess.
Fortunately, moving the rest with Speedy entry avoids the problem (though the beam extensions don't display in the Speedy entry frame). Notes elsewhere on the staff seem OK.
Here's another issue: when the notes are on the middle line, if, after extending the beams manually, you try to move the rest up with Simple entry--mouse or arrow-key nudge--the notes flip and the beam extensions are trashed.
They then can't be flipped back with L--when you do that, they stay unflipped, but the articulations move to the wrong side of the note.
If you try to flip it with Utilities/Stem direction, you get a real mess.
Fortunately, moving the rest with Speedy entry avoids the problem (though the beam extensions don't display in the Speedy entry frame). Notes elsewhere on the staff seem OK.
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Also, you can't copy partial measures with a mouse click, only by dragging.
It's really unfortunate that the length of extended beams are absolute, not proportional to the whole beam.
Other than that, it works perfectly.
It's really unfortunate that the length of extended beams are absolute, not proportional to the whole beam.
Other than that, it works perfectly.
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Secondary "half" beams can't be extended in any kind of useful way, as shown in beats 2 and 3. (I would like to shorten them in this case.)
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Yep, the default options are all unsatisfactory. I wrote to MM years ago with a feature request about this but it obviously slipped through the cracks.
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Yes, that is one of the features often found in music. I have really no idea why it is not included in Finale, or even considered after so many years of development. Even MuseScore 2 does it well.David Clarence wrote:Yep, the default options are all unsatisfactory. I wrote to MM years ago with a feature request about this but it obviously slipped through the cracks.
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This is my solution. "Solution" doesn't mean that it is OK for MM to neglect this problem.
https://youtu.be/iAuY6PogPd0
https://youtu.be/iAuY6PogPd0
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I never thought of this! I like this "solution". Although it's not a solution, it's workaround. But I like it still.OCTO wrote:This is my solution. "Solution" doesn't mean that it is OK for MM to neglect this problem.
https://youtu.be/iAuY6PogPd0
Does this method result in exactly the same note spacing as the other methods?
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OCTO’s workaround is for documents where “Extend Beams Over Rests” is de-selected.
Here is a workaround for documents where “Extend Beams Over Rests” is selected:
Here is a workaround for documents where “Extend Beams Over Rests” is selected:
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Yes, a workaround.Ere Lievonen wrote:I never thought of this! I like this "solution". Although it's not a solution, it's workaround. But I like it still.OCTO wrote:This is my solution. "Solution" doesn't mean that it is OK for MM to neglect this problem.
https://youtu.be/iAuY6PogPd0
Does this method result in exactly the same note spacing as the other methods?
The note-spacing is kept regular. Which other methods you mean for comparison?
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All the ones already mentioned in this thread.OCTO wrote:Which other methods you mean for comparison?
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After watching Octo's video many times I finally figured it out (perhaps in this case a few words would be worth more than a thousand pictures?) Very clever, though there is a playback problem to be addressed, and one must place the vertical level of the "rests" manually. By the way, "beam over barlines" is a misnomer.
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Here's the smart-line solution, for what it's worth. The smart lines are pretty easy to draw. In the case of down-stem notes, no adjustment is necessary to the anchor points. In the case of up-stem, since the anchor point is the left edge of the notehead, the anchor points must be changed. Since upon drawing the line is the right length, though, the whole line can be moved to the right after drawing instead of doing each endpoint separately. Rests sometime need to be moved depending on the notes, but often not.
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I believe I worked with this in the past, but don't recall what I did. Possibly the following was one workaround.
Select the option to beam over rests for secondary beams. Then, to get the shorter beam in the spots with the 8th followed by 16th rest and 16th note, move the 16th rest to the right to get the proper short beam length, then hide it. Lastly, with Voice 2, enter a 16th rest.
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Select the option to beam over rests for secondary beams. Then, to get the shorter beam in the spots with the 8th followed by 16th rest and 16th note, move the 16th rest to the right to get the proper short beam length, then hide it. Lastly, with Voice 2, enter a 16th rest.
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There was a discussion of this topic at the MM Feature Requests recently:
https://makemusic.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/ ... ver%20rest
MM spokesman Michael Johnson's reply was positive but hedged: "Unfortunately, there is work that is more pressing ahead of this story, but I do want to provide the control to the high-end user sooner rather than later." Apparently high end users will need to wait a bit longer for Finale to be able to do something so basic that it is amazing that it wasn't in version 1.
https://makemusic.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/ ... ver%20rest
MM spokesman Michael Johnson's reply was positive but hedged: "Unfortunately, there is work that is more pressing ahead of this story, but I do want to provide the control to the high-end user sooner rather than later." Apparently high end users will need to wait a bit longer for Finale to be able to do something so basic that it is amazing that it wasn't in version 1.
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There's really nothing high-end about this "story." It seems like it would be an easy fix for them--"Extend secondary beams over rests" works just fine. They only need to disable it in the case of the short beams, which I guessing no one wants anyway.