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- Sun Apr 28, 2024 2:36 am
- Forum: General Finale Help
- Topic: Is there a simple way to make layered accidentals overlap?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 96
Re: Is there a simple way to make layered accidentals overlap?
In the worst case, you can hide an accidental with the * key in Simple or Speedy entry.
- Sat Apr 27, 2024 11:34 pm
- Forum: Finale Forum Feedback
- Topic: Forum unusually slow
- Replies: 0
- Views: 14
Forum unusually slow
Today there's seems to be a long delay to load each page...
- Sat Apr 27, 2024 3:50 pm
- Forum: General Finale Help
- Topic: Varying numbers of staves.
- Replies: 3
- Views: 56
Re: Varying numbers of staves.
Is there a way to have the group name disappear when there's only one staff?
- Fri Apr 26, 2024 7:20 pm
- Forum: General Finale Help
- Topic: Lyrics Tool type into score and click assignment stopped working
- Replies: 11
- Views: 2051
Re: Lyrics Tool type into score and click assignment stopped working
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
1) Quit Finale and restart; if that doesn't fix it
2) Reboot your computer
- Thu Apr 25, 2024 5:03 am
- Forum: General Finale Help
- Topic: FInale Can't Change Durations without changing rhythm - Dorico Can
- Replies: 9
- Views: 242
Re: FInale Can't Change Durations without changing rhythm - Dorico Can
Does the Lua gang take requests?
- Thu Apr 25, 2024 12:05 am
- Forum: General Finale Help
- Topic: Delete All Page Breaks
- Replies: 11
- Views: 223
Re: Delete All Page Breaks
Does it default to the whole document? Surely this is something done fairly rarely.
- Thu Apr 25, 2024 12:03 am
- Forum: General Finale Help
- Topic: Trick for aligning expressions and hairpins
- Replies: 1
- Views: 78
Re: Trick for aligning expressions and hairpins
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.
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.
- Wed Apr 24, 2024 11:58 pm
- Forum: General Finale Help
- Topic: FInale Can't Change Durations without changing rhythm - Dorico Can
- Replies: 9
- Views: 242
Re: FInale Can't Change Durations without changing rhythm - Dorico Can
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.BurtGoldstein wrote: ↑Wed Apr 24, 2024 10:48 pmSo 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!
- Wed Apr 24, 2024 10:42 pm
- Forum: General Finale Help
- Topic: Delete All Page Breaks
- Replies: 11
- Views: 223
Re: Delete All Page Breaks
No need for LUA:
Selection tool: Select all;Edit/Clear Selected Items/Page breaks.
Selection tool: Select all;Edit/Clear Selected Items/Page breaks.
- Wed Apr 24, 2024 8:54 pm
- Forum: General Finale Help
- Topic: FInale Can't Change Durations without changing rhythm - Dorico Can
- Replies: 9
- Views: 242
Re: FInale Can't Change Durations without changing rhythm - Dorico Can
Plug-ins/TG Tools/Modify Rests:
- Wed Apr 24, 2024 8:35 pm
- Forum: General Finale Help
- Topic: FInale Can't Change Durations without changing rhythm - Dorico Can
- Replies: 9
- Views: 242
Re: FInale Can't Change Durations without changing rhythm - Dorico Can
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...
- Wed Apr 24, 2024 8:31 pm
- Forum: Beginners
- Topic: Problem with slurs
- Replies: 2
- Views: 73
Re: Problem with slurs
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.
- Tue Apr 23, 2024 4:08 pm
- Forum: General Finale Help
- Topic: Library import/ export misses user-defined categories
- Replies: 3
- Views: 111
Re: Library import/ export misses user-defined categories
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...
- Tue Apr 23, 2024 4:08 am
- Forum: General Finale Help
- Topic: Alternating Time Signatures
- Replies: 2
- Views: 102
Re: Alternating Time Signatures
Set up two measures of this, then use the copy command to replicate those time signatures throughout the piece.
- Tue Apr 23, 2024 4:04 am
- Forum: General Finale Help
- Topic: Alternating Time Signatures
- Replies: 2
- Views: 102
Re: Alternating Time Signatures
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...
- Mon Apr 22, 2024 9:32 pm
- Forum: General Finale Help
- Topic: Can't copy Title placeholder text.
- Replies: 2
- Views: 83
Re: Can't copy Title placeholder text.
The actual text block itself says "use the title as found in Score Manager/File Info, so you'll have to enter it there.
- Sun Apr 21, 2024 7:17 pm
- Forum: Finale Forum Feedback
- Topic: Please change the registration instruction wording
- Replies: 6
- Views: 178
Re: Please change the registration question wording
Agree "every other letter" is ambiguous. Maybe "first, third, fifth, etc."
- Sun Apr 21, 2024 6:49 pm
- Forum: Finale Forum Feedback
- Topic: Please change the registration instruction wording
- Replies: 6
- Views: 178
Re: Change the registration question wording!
I'm wondering if this is legit.
- Sun Apr 21, 2024 5:36 pm
- Forum: General Finale Help
- Topic: Unable to unhide a placed graphic image
- Replies: 3
- Views: 155
Re: Unable to unhide a placed graphic image
Bizarre.
I like to do all non-music "desktop publishing" things elsewhere and combine them with Finale output in a PDF program.
I like to do all non-music "desktop publishing" things elsewhere and combine them with Finale output in a PDF program.
- Sat Apr 20, 2024 8:59 pm
- Forum: General Finale Help
- Topic: Is there a better way to handle enharmonic re-writing?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 166
Re: Is there a better way to handle enharmonic re-writing?
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...
- Sat Apr 20, 2024 4:33 pm
- Forum: General Finale Help
- Topic: multimeasures resetting despite edits
- Replies: 2
- Views: 100
Re: multimeasures resetting despite edits
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...
- Fri Apr 19, 2024 2:16 am
- Forum: General Finale Help
- Topic: Need help with my FinaleScript for X noteheads
- Replies: 6
- Views: 234
Re: Need help with my FinaleScript for X noteheads
This works for me:
Code: Select all
menu item "Utilities/Change/Noteheads..."
check "X Notehead" near "change to"
press "OK"
- Thu Apr 18, 2024 7:57 pm
- Forum: General Finale Help
- Topic: Need help with my FinaleScript for X noteheads
- Replies: 6
- Views: 234
Re: Need help with my FinaleScript for X noteheads
Try
Press "OK"
rather than clicking.
Press "OK"
rather than clicking.
- Thu Apr 18, 2024 4:59 am
- Forum: General Finale Help
- Topic: Missing Measure Numbers
- Replies: 15
- Views: 807
Re: Missing Measure Numbers
Right. The default is to have Show on top staff checked. You must have unchecked it.
- Thu Apr 18, 2024 4:52 am
- Forum: General Finale Help
- Topic: Missing Measure Numbers
- Replies: 15
- Views: 807
Re: Missing Measure Numbers
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.