switch 2nds
Posted: Wed Nov 22, 2017 3:56 pm
Hi,
I'm working on engraving a score that is in 3/2 time. There are often measures in two voices where the upper voice is a dotted whole note and the lower voice is a half note followed by a whole note. There are no problems, except when a 2nd is formed between the upper and lower voices. Sometimes Finale will position the half note to the right of the dotted whole note, sometimes to the left. I can't figure out how it chooses.
The problem I'm having is when the half note gets put to the right. When this happens, the dot from the dotted whole note looks like a staccato mark on the half note. (See picture). In these cases, I want to flip the order around so that the half note is positioned left of the whole note. I tried using the 'note position tool' under 'special tools' to do it manually. Is there a better way to do it? And it seems that Finale will often override the manual adjustment. It may be because I'm pressing some autoformat option like command u (update layout).
Anyway, I was hoping there would be a button similar to flipping stems that can be used to flip seconds around.
Thank you,
--Ryan
I'm running finale 25.4 on a mac
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I'm working on engraving a score that is in 3/2 time. There are often measures in two voices where the upper voice is a dotted whole note and the lower voice is a half note followed by a whole note. There are no problems, except when a 2nd is formed between the upper and lower voices. Sometimes Finale will position the half note to the right of the dotted whole note, sometimes to the left. I can't figure out how it chooses.
The problem I'm having is when the half note gets put to the right. When this happens, the dot from the dotted whole note looks like a staccato mark on the half note. (See picture). In these cases, I want to flip the order around so that the half note is positioned left of the whole note. I tried using the 'note position tool' under 'special tools' to do it manually. Is there a better way to do it? And it seems that Finale will often override the manual adjustment. It may be because I'm pressing some autoformat option like command u (update layout).
Anyway, I was hoping there would be a button similar to flipping stems that can be used to flip seconds around.
Thank you,
--Ryan
I'm running finale 25.4 on a mac
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