Custom Sized Time Signatures through piece of music

josefern · Post by **josefern** » Wed Jun 08, 2011 12:57 am

How do I resize the time signatures in the middle of the score independently of the time signature at the beginning of the work? Kind of like I need to put a reminder time signature in the middle. -Joe Finale 2011 on Mac

miker · Post by **miker** » Wed Jun 08, 2011 3:14 am

Using the font Engraver Time, you can place them as expressions.

josefern · Post by **josefern** » Wed Jun 08, 2011 11:27 am

I need the mini time signatures to change the timing. Can an expression alter the beats per measure? I'm looking to just make the signatures smaller with in the work. It is an irregular Hymn that I am setting and I don't care for all the regular sized TS all over the place. -joe

Peter Thomsen · Post by **Peter Thomsen** » Wed Jun 08, 2011 1:49 pm

To change the time you need a "real" time signature.
An expression won't do.

But...

You can use the Staff Tool to hide/show time signatures.

Either
- set the Staff Attributes to, not display time signatures, and then use a staff style to make the hidden time signatures show where you want to "unhide" them,
or
- do it "the other way around": set the Staff Attributes to display time signatures, and then use a staff style to hide the time signatures "locally".

In a measure stack where there isn't a time signature change, Finale normally doesn't display a time signature.
With the Measure Tool you can force a such measure stack to display its time signature (use the Measure Attributes).

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