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by Perotinus
Tue Mar 28, 2023 9:07 pm
Forum: Beginners
Topic: resize tool changes lyric size
Replies: 4
Views: 4030

Re: resize tool changes lyric size

I agree that this is something that one should be able to turn off. If you are using an articulation, for example, it allows you to keep the articulation from resizing with the note.
by Perotinus
Wed Feb 08, 2023 10:42 pm
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: Don't display Time Signature at end of staff line
Replies: 5
Views: 652

Re: Don't display Time Signature at end of staff line

If you only want to do it for a few measures, rather than globally, go to the measure tool, click on the measure, and check the proper option under display key signature: something like "don't display courtesy time signatures at end of measure" or similar wording. I don't have the exact prompts here...
by Perotinus
Sun Jan 22, 2023 8:22 pm
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: Speedy Entry '=' too far away in windows
Replies: 24
Views: 3449

Re: Speedy Entry '=' too far away in windows

Just a note to let everyone know that FinaleTweak is alive and well and working very nicely on my machine with 27.3. If this ever stopped working, I would probably switch from finale. It's a quick and handy way to modify the speedy keys items in the finale.ini file. Google "FinaleTweak" and you'll f...
by Perotinus
Wed Jan 18, 2023 6:51 pm
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: Hard hyphen in Windows
Replies: 6
Views: 642

Re: Hard hyphen in Windows

And the hyphen character that you select in document options – lyrics is a different thing right?
by Perotinus
Sun Sep 11, 2022 7:35 pm
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: How to prevent "Save Changes" prompt
Replies: 34
Views: 4898

Re: How to prevent "Save Changes" prompt

When it asks me whether I want to save, and I'm not sure it has been changed, I go up into the edit menu and check to see if there's anything to undo. Not that this isn't a time waster as well, but at least I can exit with impunity if nothing has been changed after opening the file.
by Perotinus
Sun Sep 04, 2022 8:02 pm
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: Problems on printing final double bar
Replies: 13
Views: 1495

Re: Problems on printing final double bar

Is there any possibility that your printer is cutting off the rightmost part of that final bar because the last bit of it is intruding into a margin that the printer doesn't print in? I think this is a rather far-fetched possibility but I just thought I'd ask.
by Perotinus
Sat Aug 06, 2022 2:25 pm
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: Keyboard shortcut for Menu items?
Replies: 5
Views: 1007

Re: Keyboard shortcut for Menu items?

Also see the TG Tools Menu shortcuts under the plug-ins menu. That allows you to go into the menus and submenus of the program. Also, you're not limited just to the function keys.
by Perotinus
Mon Jul 25, 2022 7:48 pm
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: Lua plug-ins
Replies: 5
Views: 1014

Re: Lua plug-ins

Actually, as I recall, it means "awesome!"
by Perotinus
Sat Jun 18, 2022 11:25 pm
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: Automatic Update Layout issue
Replies: 11
Views: 1843

Re: Automatic Update Layout issue

A query:
Would certain choices under "reflow measures" under preferences have any effect on this issue?
by Perotinus
Sun May 29, 2022 7:59 pm
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: Vertical Spacing of all verses of a lyric at the same time?
Replies: 10
Views: 1806

Re: Vertical Spacing of all verses of a lyric at the same time?

So glad! I added another paragraph from the manual, just in case there are further things that might serve you.
by Perotinus
Sun May 29, 2022 7:42 pm
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: Vertical Spacing of all verses of a lyric at the same time?
Replies: 10
Views: 1806

Re: Vertical Spacing of all verses of a lyric at the same time?

This may not do everything you want, but you might try this, from the User Manual, under the Lyric Tool: Set Piece Offsets To Default Font. Click this button to tell Finale to automatically change the baseline-positioning values for all Verses, Choruses, and Sections in all staves. When this is done...
by Perotinus
Sun May 08, 2022 6:24 pm
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: Shortening lyric lines
Replies: 8
Views: 1349

Re: Shortening lyric lines

I always so appreciate Mike's thoroughness.
by Perotinus
Sun May 08, 2022 4:54 pm
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: Shortening lyric lines
Replies: 8
Views: 1349

Re: Shortening lyric lines

Yes. But I think all you have to do is click on the extension, perhaps with the lyric tool or the selection tool selected, and the handle will appear.
by Perotinus
Sat May 07, 2022 1:50 pm
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: Shortening lyric lines
Replies: 8
Views: 1349

Re: Shortening lyric lines

And, once your document is formatted the way you like, you can click on the extension and drag its endpoint to where you want it. If the measure is widened or compressed, you may need to redo the drag.
by Perotinus
Mon Feb 28, 2022 5:45 pm
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: lyric hyphenation problem
Replies: 14
Views: 2851

Re: lyric hyphenation problem

If I am understanding what you want, and expanding on what David and Motet have said above: Finale's lyrics tool offers a hard hyphen as well as a hard space. If you enter a hard hyphen you will not have the continuing, open-ended series of hyphens that result when a hyphen doesn't have a following ...
by Perotinus
Thu Feb 10, 2022 9:22 pm
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: Finale 27 ludicrously slow to start
Replies: 32
Views: 15711

Re: Finale 27 ludicrously slow to start

Great!
So what values did you change in the .ini file in Windows?
by Perotinus
Tue Jan 11, 2022 6:46 pm
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: Cadenza writing
Replies: 12
Views: 2672

Re: Cadenza writing

The plug-in "JW Conceal Barlines," found at https://www.finaletips.nu/ will remove the default spaces left when barlines are hidden. Here is the description of the plug-in from the site. JW Conceal Barlines Hides the barlines in the selected region, to give the impression that the barlines never exi...
by Perotinus
Mon Jan 10, 2022 7:12 pm
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: Delete Sx on top of Simple entry palette
Replies: 8
Views: 2053

Re: Delete Sx on top of Simple entry palette

I think BuonTempi has identified it correctly. jose oscar, what did you do to make the palette look different? And how different does the pallette look now? P.S. If you dock the palette, by pulling it to the right or left of the window so it fuses to the side (like the way the palettes next to it lo...
by Perotinus
Tue Aug 17, 2021 3:32 pm
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: Keyboard shortcut help!
Replies: 19
Views: 3895

Re: Keyboard shortcut help!

This thread may supply even further options. Note the FinaleTweak applet referred to in the thread (created by Jari Williamson), which simplifies somewhat the editing of the speedy entry keyboard remapper
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by Perotinus
Sun Jul 18, 2021 2:16 pm
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: Range of a part
Replies: 4
Views: 1148

Re: Range of a part

Plug-ins (menu) --> Scoring and Arranging --> Find Range?
Is that still available?
by Perotinus
Fri Jun 04, 2021 2:48 pm
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: Finale for iOS?
Replies: 20
Views: 15546

Re: Finale for iOS?

Shades of Beethoven! Even with a reference to his conversation books!
by Perotinus
Wed May 05, 2021 5:41 pm
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: Lyric Hyphen Help
Replies: 9
Views: 2889

Re: Lyric Hyphen Help

And choosing a different "Hyphen Character" setting in "Document Options--Lyrics" can't help with this?
by Perotinus
Thu Apr 29, 2021 6:04 pm
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: Text Block Bug?
Replies: 16
Views: 2810

Re: Text Block Bug?

Hi, folks, Sometimes I have had troubles with disappearing text boxes when working on finale docs in Windows. One workaround that I have had some success with is changing the type of view I am using. See if displaying one page in Page View, rather than multiple ones, might help keep the box open for...
by Perotinus
Sat Feb 27, 2021 6:57 pm
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: Handles not Showing in Special Tools Palette
Replies: 18
Views: 9315

Re: Handles not Showing in Special Tools Palette

Last thing I can think of to check is to see if the size of the handles has been changed to make them too small or too transparent to be seen. I think it's in one of the preferences settings. Edit/Preferences/View/ Handles/ size and transparency.

As I see Zuill suggested already above.
by Perotinus
Sun Jan 24, 2021 8:59 pm
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: Mass-change combined articulations to stacked articulations?
Replies: 9
Views: 2408

Re: Mass-change combined articulations to stacked articulations?

Anyone find it a bit ironic that MM uses a third-party plug-in (and available gratis) to fix user's problem? (Or am I being too curmudgeonly?) Here's for further integration of Jari and his resources directly into Finale. :lol: :lol: