Finale Forum

Did you quit and restart Finale? Is the plugin you downloaded a 64 bit version?

Another thing to consider is that the Engraver fonts were changed several years ago, and that has caused problems. One of the changes is the font name style. For instance, EngraverFontSet and Engraver Font Set are 2 different fonts. According to your list of annotation files, the font you have insta...

Try this-

Open a file. If the ties and slurs aren't right, go to Document Menu > Set Default Music Font. The right font is probably selected, so click OK. Any difference?

Following these directions, you are not usually making a change, just "touching" the dialog, which may do something.

If you put a rehearsal mark (number, letter) at the beginning of each phrase, Finale will automatically start a MM rest at that point, or end one at that point. As to why you have no MM rests showing, I don't know. If you go to the Edit Menu, go down to MM Rests > Create for score or part. That will...

There's a Utility, Check Notation > Check Accidentals. Worth a try?

OK. Glad yours pulls up but all I get is a pop up saying to upgrade. Not blaming anyone for the problems - stuff happens often enuf. But this conversation is an appreciation of the information and my skills don't translate to operable. Is there anything I can do? I've got projects sitting there. Gr...

Use an underscore for the horizontal separator.

Type C _Eb =

C
Eb

I suppose the only way to do it in Finale is to use hidden tuplets. Set the Time Signature to the nearest rational time, hide the displaying time and replace with a text expression time.

Dorico produces irrational time natively, although I'm not sure how full featured this is at present.

… the beat chart changes can be accidentally removed if music spacing is inadvertently applied (usually by the client receiving the completed files) … To each his own. I make statements upfront that the Finale document(s) will stay with me - the client gets PDF. This also prevents that others will ...

I leave AMS on as long as I am doing initial entry, in Scroll view. After I go to page view for layout, I turn it off. I guess everybody has a method that works for them. That's the way I roll, too. Additionally, my preferred way to make manual spacing tweaks is with the Special Tools Note Position...

I don't envy the MM staff having to adjust to all these Mac OS:es. Maybe, if they hadn't to, we should see some significant improvements to the program itself. To be fair, we users really don't know just how much effort is needed to make sure Finale is compatible with changing Mac OSes. Blaming Mac...

Just a guess-

Right click on the notehead handle and choose "Edit". Here you can change the size of the notehead font and the font itself. Try making it 1 point smaller. Or, try changing to a text font X like Hellvetica or Arial, any sans serif font.

Another possibility-

Copy and paste all of the text - do not change the fonts just yet. When you're done, use Edit > Text Search and Replace to fix the fonts. Set the options to be the type of text - text blocks, text expressions, etc.

motet wrote: ↑

Wed Oct 09, 2019 8:47 pm

I wonder what the problem is. I can delete a G below the staff. Make sure you're in the right layer.

It depends upon the distance between staves. If they are close, you end up getting into the "zone" of the stave below and the eraser has no effect.

Make a Staff Style that hides the time signature and apply it to the first measure of the bass staff.

Finale's onscreen rendering is not so good. The example should print out accurately, and that's what matters to most users.

Patterson Beams is in Plugins > Note, Beam and Rest Editing > Patterson Plugins Lite. Robert Patterson has a user guide on his website: http://robertgpatterson.com/-fininfo/-patbeams/patbeams.html If you scroll down the page in the user guide, Robert gives settings to produce "Ted Ross Beams" (autho...

apkyburz wrote: ↑

Thu Oct 03, 2019 11:44 pm

The notes are resized regular notes, not grace notes.

What is the significance of the resized notes? I would leave them at the regular size to prevent confusion - they look like grace notes. And maybe add a "7" because it seems to be a 7 tuplet. Possibly mark "freely" if that's what you want.

…and resize by eye. Once you place the graphic, resize it as desired then double click on it with the Graphics Tool. In the window that appears, change to "Attach To Measure…". To copy this graphic to other locations, set the Edit Filter to copy only Measure Graphics. The copies will maintain the r...

I would write out the passage entirely with no repeats, DSs, etc. It's only 8 bars total.

I haven't encountered Any bugs in my limited use of Finale, except that the Screen will flip back to the Top, or just skip away from whatever I'm trying to enter with the Mouse. That doesn't sound like a Finale problem or a Mac OS problem. Can you switch out your Mouse with another to see if that h...

Rather than your street address, you might want to instead put your email address. That might encourage people to contact you in an easy manner to purchase your publication.

Go to the first staff. Press the mouse button and "draw a lasso" around the beats you want to select, let's say beats 3 and 4. Release the mouse button, press shift, and click on beat 3 of the last staff.

Double click on the first measure - it will select the entire measure stack. Press Shift, then End. That will select all measures from that point to the end.

If anyone plans on upgrading to the new OS, it might behoove them to see if there are any favorite small utilities that might not work. I've got a bunch of them that I use in my sound file collection for various reasons. They were almost all free, so I suspect their long term compatibilty might be a...