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Does the Lua gang take requests?

Does it default to the whole document? Surely this is something done fairly rarely.

Asterisk.

You're talking about shortcuts to TG Tools/Align-move dynamics, I think. On Windows, it's Alt+keypad-* to align to which ever option is set in the plug-in dialog, Alt+down-arrow to align and move down, Alt+up-arrow to align and move up. Try Option on the Mac.

BurtGoldstein wrote: ↑

Wed Apr 24, 2024 10:48 pm

So if you've filled bars with dotted halves in 3/4 and want to change them to halves or quarters - back to one-at-a-time. So 1990s!

I don't know what's "1990s" about it, but I suspect the reason there's no way to do that is that there's little if any call for it.

No need for LUA:

Selection tool: Select all;Edit/Clear Selected Items/Page breaks.

Plug-ins/TG Tools/Modify Rests:

Sounds like maybe Dorico is a better compositional tool, letting you change your mind more easily. Maybe you should switch to that. They likely have a competitive upgrade. In my case I've worked out how the music will be notated before putting it into Finale, so don't notice these shortcomings. I th...

Most SmartShapes, including slurs, are applied by double-clicking and dragging. I'm sure you've put in hairpins. The slur (and a couple of others) has the additional shortcut of double-clicking to slur to the next note only, but that makes less sense for hairpins or trills.

I just tried exporting expressions into a library, then creating a new document without libraries, then importing my library. It seems to duplicate the built-in categories with empty versions of the same name, and indeed it omits some of my categories. The omitted categories were called Whole Note R...

Set up two measures of this, then use the copy command to replicate those time signatures throughout the piece.

Finale lets you use a different time signature for display from the "real" time signature, so you can have alternating 4/4 and 3/4 measures, all using the same time signature for display, your side-by-side 4/4 3/4. To get that, use a composite time signature--for display--of 4/4+3/4, then in the doc...

The actual text block itself says "use the title as found in Score Manager/File Info, so you'll have to enter it there.

Agree "every other letter" is ambiguous. Maybe "first, third, fifth, etc."

I'm wondering if this is legit.

Bizarre.

I like to do all non-music "desktop publishing" things elsewhere and combine them with Finale output in a PDF program.

The best way is probably to do it yourself. You could use Finale or a plug-in to search for all B-sharps, say, but then decide to flip them manually or not yourself. Unless you have a multi-thousand-measure opera, say, this is probably not as daunting as it first may appear. (And if you're dealing w...

Only updating multimeasure rests where it matters seems like something they could rather easily fix. It certainly causes a lot of trouble. My own method is to leave the "update automatically" setting always off and start out with no linked parts--delete them if you have to. I then enter all the musi...

This works for me:

Try

Press "OK"

rather than clicking.

Right. The default is to have Show on top staff checked. You must have unchecked it.

Indulge me and try it. It only takes one click. I know what I'm talking about--I've used Finale professionally for 20 years.

In the measure region settings you've shown, check "show on top staff" (which should have been the default).

In the score, one generally doesn't want measure numbers on every staff, so "measure numbers" is unchecked in several of the staff attributes. "Show on top staff" overrides that.

You don't need a JW plug-in to swap layers. Edit menu, Move/Copy layers.

You could search for Explorer, but double-clicking on any folder in Windows will open it in File Explorer. This is from one of your posts:

Windows Explorer: