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by Anders Hedelin
Mon Feb 19, 2024 10:23 pm
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: Plug in question
Replies: 9
Views: 385

Re: Plug in question

Hm, seems like you can't skip the score list.
If you haven't too many of these numbered measures, maybe you could live with separate categories for each part in question?
by Anders Hedelin
Mon Feb 19, 2024 10:10 pm
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: Plug in question
Replies: 9
Views: 385

Re: Plug in question

Wouldn't rehearsal marks do the trick? That way you don't have to pick every number separately. You may restart the sequence as many times you wish, I think. To avoid the numbering to be shown in other parts (which would be in the wrong place for them), you might duplicate the category and skip the ...
by Anders Hedelin
Sat Feb 17, 2024 11:19 am
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: Placement of grace note slashes
Replies: 2
Views: 159

Re: Placement of grace note slashes

The example wasn't ready when I posted it. Actually both grace notes have to be downstem in this case, and the reason for that is a rather unusual string technique: Grace notes explained.JPG I'm using 27.4 only nowadays. I kept a 26 for safety but I haven't used it recently. Maybe I will uninstall i...
by Anders Hedelin
Sat Feb 17, 2024 7:38 am
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: Placement of grace note slashes
Replies: 2
Views: 159

Placement of grace note slashes

I have a job where the composer uses straight flags. Now, on grace notes, the slash is placed incorrectly outside the flag (see ex.). I've looked 'everywhere' for a way to alter this - tools, document options, plugins, manual - but couldn't find anything. Anyone knows how to?
Grace note slashes.JPG
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by Anders Hedelin
Wed Feb 14, 2024 4:26 pm
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: Tuplet problem
Replies: 29
Views: 7499

Re: Tuplet problem

Actually there is a faster way. Select Tuplet tool and press Shift + a number, and define the tuplet as 3 eighths instead of 2 eighths (or whatever you need). Now you have created a tuplet metatool. Then enter the first note of the tuplet (in Simple or Speedy), switch to Tuplet tool, press the metat...
by Anders Hedelin
Wed Jan 17, 2024 7:31 am
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: Assigning lyrics
Replies: 13
Views: 1070

Re: Assigning lyrics

If you have a slur over a number of notes (melisma), you may use Shift lyrics. There are a few simple options, but what I think you'd need in this case is Shift lyrics to the right, and Shift syllables by one note to the end of the lyric.
by Anders Hedelin
Tue Jan 16, 2024 5:04 pm
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: Assigning lyrics
Replies: 13
Views: 1070

Re: Assigning lyrics

Do you mean something like Ctr-clicking? That's been an option for a long time, I think.

Probably that's why there's the shift lyrics feature - if there's a melisma which would force the syllables forward fx.
by Anders Hedelin
Mon Jan 08, 2024 5:06 pm
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: Rests automatically largest value?
Replies: 6
Views: 1376

Re: Rests automatically largest value?

(If by chance there are three big beats in the measure, then you'd want 3/2, not 6/4). If you really want the bar padded out with a quarter rest and whole rest, you'd have to do it manually. Motet put it very clearly. I can add spelling out how it would look like if you have this 'three big beats' ...
by Anders Hedelin
Sat Dec 23, 2023 4:24 pm
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: PDFs in 27.4
Replies: 51
Views: 76157

Re: PDFs in 27.4

Sorry if I misinterpreted you, motet. I have noticed that many here habitually express disappointment with MM, sometimes more factually, sometimes more emotionally. I too would like to see more of development from their side, but I'm also willing to acknowledge what is good in their efforts. The las...
by Anders Hedelin
Fri Dec 22, 2023 7:08 pm
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: PDFs in 27.4
Replies: 51
Views: 76157

Re: PDFs in 27.4

I suspect it was intentional and someone thought that one print-to-PDF was as good as the next. I don't see how it couldn't have been. Someone had to disable the printer choices. What was unintentional, I guess, was not realizing that Microsoft Print to PDF is an inferior product and is in fact not...
by Anders Hedelin
Fri Dec 22, 2023 6:59 pm
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: Prevent shape expression metatools storing used items
Replies: 9
Views: 1884

Re: Prevent shape expression metatools storing used items

When you've had problems with too-big files in the past, was it related to smart shapes? There is the frame limit of 32,767. If the smart shapes are not really the problem, it may not be worth the considerable time it takes to remedy it. I'm not sure that I follow you. What do you refer to with 'sm...
by Anders Hedelin
Fri Dec 22, 2023 6:31 pm
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: Prevent shape expression metatools storing used items
Replies: 9
Views: 1884

Re: Prevent shape expression metatools storing used items

If your shape expression is the only expression in your new expression category, then you can get to your shape expression very fast via the Expression Selection. Once you can see the expression in the Expression Selection, and the expression is selected, just hit the Return key. Thanks again. I al...
by Anders Hedelin
Fri Dec 22, 2023 5:31 pm
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: Prevent shape expression metatools storing used items
Replies: 9
Views: 1884

Re: Prevent shape expression metatools storing used items

To prevent that it happens again with new shape expressions, do not enter them via a metatool. Instead, enter them via the Expression Selection. If you use a custom expression category, it will not take much longer than using a metatool. Thanks for your reply, Peter. Could you elaborate a little on...
by Anders Hedelin
Fri Dec 22, 2023 2:18 pm
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: Prevent shape expression metatools storing used items
Replies: 9
Views: 1884

Prevent shape expression metatools storing used items

In a score I'm working on I had to create a metatool for a shape expression, a symbol which I couldn't create with another tool, and which occurs a couple of thousands (!) times in the score. The score isn't extremely large in itself, "just" 126 pages and 15 players, but it's extremely filled up wit...
by Anders Hedelin
Fri Dec 15, 2023 9:19 am
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: PDFs in 27.4
Replies: 51
Views: 76157

Re: PDFs in 27.4

I, at least, had no problems with printing to Adobe Acrobat Pro after the last update. The size of the file I tried with was app. 1/3 of what it was with Export Pages in Graphics tool before the update - good enough for me. I'm a little surprised that Motet mentions Export to PDF. I thought most peo...
by Anders Hedelin
Wed Dec 13, 2023 8:35 pm
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: Rests automatically largest value?
Replies: 6
Views: 1376

Re: Rests automatically largest value?

...if I have two spare beats at the end of my measure, make Finale insert a half note rest instead of two quarter note rests? If we are speaking of 3/4 fx. it's not considered correct to combine the last to quarter rests into a half. Traditionally notes may be syncopated of course, but not rests. A...
by Anders Hedelin
Wed Dec 13, 2023 5:08 pm
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: The Full Instrument Name On The First Page Of Each Movement
Replies: 8
Views: 1231

Re: The Full Instrument Name On The First Page Of Each Movement

I think many people on the forum would do each movement as a separate file, and join them as PDFs. That would automatically do what you ask. This may be slightly OT, but I've found that having separate files for each movement is useful mainly when a one-in-all file becomes too big for Finale to man...
by Anders Hedelin
Wed Dec 13, 2023 4:49 pm
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: PDFs in 27.4
Replies: 51
Views: 76157

Re: PDFs in 27.4

Me too. (Finale-wise)
Glad that MM was so fast this time.
by Anders Hedelin
Tue Nov 28, 2023 8:34 am
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: 35th anniversary sale
Replies: 10
Views: 4938

Re: 35th anniversary sale

MuseScore is of course free. Both Sibelius and Dorico have free versions, and cheaper 'mid-range' versions. Finale used to have tiered products, but without them, it's having to compete with very low prices. True, of course. No need to add to the comments on MM's lack of ambition, really. But that ...
by Anders Hedelin
Sat Nov 25, 2023 6:36 pm
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: 35th anniversary sale
Replies: 10
Views: 4938

Re: 35th anniversary sale

Personally, I wouldn't mind MM raising the price of Finale if they did something about all the flaws in it. Lowering the price, for whatever nationality, gives me a bad feeling.
by Anders Hedelin
Mon Nov 06, 2023 6:49 am
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: org point articulation on rest does not appear
Replies: 9
Views: 3231

Re: org point articulation on rest does not appear

FWIW here's how it would work with two expressions that break a MMR:
Break MMR.JPG
by Anders Hedelin
Mon Nov 06, 2023 4:56 am
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: org point articulation on rest does not appear
Replies: 9
Views: 3231

Re: org point articulation on rest does not appear

Yes, I think we had a discussion about the double MM breaking before. Possibly it was me who suggested that measure attribute. And that it shouldn't be invisible, just hidden (greyed out), for the reason you mentioned. Maybe your script method is more practical - for those who like working with scri...
by Anders Hedelin
Sun Nov 05, 2023 6:40 pm
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: org point articulation on rest does not appear
Replies: 9
Views: 3231

Re: org point articulation on rest does not appear

The LUA script seems brilliant. But you are not quite right about expressions not breaking MM rests. You might put them in a category, fx. Tempo Alterations, which allows breaking MMR. (For some strange reason tempo marks are preset to do this, but not tempo alterations. Never mind, you just have to...
by Anders Hedelin
Sun Nov 05, 2023 4:47 pm
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: org point articulation on rest does not appear
Replies: 9
Views: 3231

Re: org point articulation on rest does not appear

Or, you might create the fermata as an expression which is independent of the content in the measure.

Do you need it for just one staff, or all staves?
by Anders Hedelin
Thu Oct 05, 2023 7:42 pm
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: Problem with Beam Stubs
Replies: 9
Views: 1610

Re: Problem with Beam Stubs

Yes, that's better!