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I think you can having it authorized on three computers at once, something like that.

bopeuph wrote: ↑

Thu May 02, 2024 7:41 pm

Okay, is that staff style affecting multimeasure rests?

I don't know--is it?

We need an example of what you mean.

The Force Hide Staff staff style is what you want, applied with the Staff tool while in the part. Select what you want to hide, but instead of picking the staff style by right-clicking, use the menu to choose Apply Staff Style To->Current Part/Score before selecting the staff style.

Selection tool, Select All, then press 4 or use Utilities/Music Spacing/Apply Note Spacing.

You can select an bunch of things and move to another category at once, if that helps. Then there's a function "reset to category."

That seems wise of them. I'm in the business of renting out orchestra music, and can tell you things are nowhere near universal usage of tablets (quite the opposite--about 1/4 of those I polled said they would want tablet versions alone). The biggest iPad, the iPad Pro 12.9 inch, is only letter size...

Thanks! Just came to report that it seems better.

Still happening today. Can you alert the boss?

Landscape mode is going to be smaller for a single page, though, since it's not as tall. The largest iPad is a little smaller than an 8-1/2 x 11 page, though maybe there's some non-Apple higher-end viewers out there. I can't see fliping the iPad on its side during a performance. My colleague was usi...

Ah, very clever--a combination of staff styles and groups that only span partial measure ranges. A rather manual process that you'd have to wait until all the system breaks and staff hiding are done to employ, though.

My guess is that you've unchecked "Show on top staff." You need that, because staff numbers are suppressed in the staff settings for most instruments so they won't show up in the score.

My last gig I sat next to someone who was playing from a table and she had a way to scroll a half page, yes. Another thing to be aware of is that players, especially wind players, generally need a break once in a while, both physically and mentally, so I hope there are some rests. If it's just that ...

In the worst case, you can hide an accidental with the * key in Simple or Speedy entry.

Today there's seems to be a long delay to load each page...

Is there a way to have the group name disappear when there's only one staff?

In "suddenly stopped working" situations, the things to always try first are

1) Quit Finale and restart; if that doesn't fix it
2) Reboot your computer

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...