Finale Forum

motet wrote:Add space at the beginning of the measure by dragging the handle.

I'd say it's better to use the "Extra space at beginning of measure" value in the Measure Attributes dialog, where you can enter always the same amount. Dragging is less precise.

How about creating a dedicated staff for the conductor symbols? A stave that contains and displays nothing else but those symbols, and where those symbols are attached to specific beats. This staff could then be included in every instrumental part where needed.

Did you try checking the attribute "Hide cautionary clefs, key, and time signatures" (also) in the first measure of the multimeasure rest?

My idea would be: if the solo quartet players are going to be sitting in the regular positions of section leaders - and sitting next to a desk partner like a regular section leader would - then the soloists' staves should be grouped with the other string groups. If this is not the case, i.e. the sol...

I never change the width of the open end. Ergo, the closed end of every hairpin should be exactly the same, regardless of the overall length. They are not. I am either missing a setting, which will force consistent behavior, or this is a bug that has spanned many, many years. As far as I know, this...

I have 2010, and for me, the default system margin values do get imported with a Document Options library.
The imported margin values, however, must be applied to the document before you can see any change!

Recently I received some music from a composer as PDF files. The music was engraved in Finale, and the PDFs looked great on screen. However, when I printed the scores on my Lexmark laser printer, the results looked exactly like Art's "printed from Finale" image. Note that this happened when I printe...

Select the Articulation Tool to show the handle of the invisible articulation. Where the handle is, there is the articulation. You need to get the articulation between the two crowded notes, either by dragging/nudging it manually (the fast way), or by trying different positioning values in the artic...

The one and only reason for the OP's problem is that inter-layer spacing has never been properly implemented in Finale . Until that is changed (which doesn't seem to be happening :( ) the best solution is, like Zuill says, to insert invisible articulations. With them you can create extra space betwe...

I'm in the middle of making parts of an arrangement of Carmen and I encountered an error that Finale was unable to create cue notes because 'It's possible that you have reached Finale's maximum number of measures with notes.' Here's the file maintenance dialog. Can this be possible? If so, I have a...

Definitely better readable with the rests.

Automatic Update Layout should be kept on at all times. Updating the layout is a vital operation for the correct functioning of Finale which should be allowed to happen whenever needed. Various layout anomalies may occur if Finale has not updated the layout when it would have been needed. Finale wil...

OPTION 2 1. Measure tool (upper toolbar) -> Measure (upper text menu) -> Edit Measure Number Regions. 2. In "Starting Number" box, type "2." Leave "1" in "Includes Measure" box above -> OK. You should put "1" in the "Starting Number" box, and "2" in the "Includes Measure" box, not the other way rou...

Of course you should.
Keep in mind this rule of thumb: When in doubt, Finale is wrong!

I'm on the latest version (2025) I knew you guys in the US always get the new versions before us in good old Europe, but I didn't know 2025 was already out :) I still have to update to version 25...Harald I think he's just preemptively making sure that his signature will be up-to-date even 7 years ...

About Knut's first image: This is an entirely different marking. In this context, this means "con pedale ad libitum". It would be quite wrong to replace this marking with the script Ped. sign, especially in an Urtext edition. (I bet there is no pedal release star and no new pedal indication in the n...

Keep in mind though that only one of the three pedal indications has a markedly different appearance when using the traditional typographic styling; two of them are still similar. There is no problem with that. That one of the pedal markings (the main one) is markedly different is exactly what a pi...

To me, it would be beneficial to have all pedal instructions in the same font style No. It is most beneficial that the various pedal instructions are in different font styles, so that they can be visually distinguished as easily as possible. It is very good that the good old Ped. (which is the peda...

There is a dedicated "Sost" and "S" symbol in the SMuFL font standard. https://elbsound.studio/img/fontcatalog/sostenuto.png (From: https://elbsound.studio/catalog-of-music-symbols.php#sostenuto ) I think this symbol has been invented by the makers of SMuFL. I've never ever seen it used in any scor...

motet wrote:What is the point of "keyless"? If I change that passage to C major, then the paste is OK.

Maybe "keyless" should be renamed as "clueless"?

Yet another solution would be to replace the tie with a smart shape slur.

Best way to do what you want: In addition to the parenthesized accidental characters, there are also cue-sized accidental characters in Maestro font (and probably in other fonts as well). In Document Options > Accidentals > Music Characters, you can choose which font characters are used for parenthe...

Jay Emmes wrote:Right, as in 'immediately, immediatelier, immediateliest'.

I believe the correct wordings in English are immediately, more immediately, most immediately.

Jay Emmes wrote:There is no superlative for 'subito' (which is not an adjective after all), so 'subitissimo' is, well, nonsensicalest.

Not quite true. Subito is both an adjective and an adverb; for both usages, subitissimo is a valid (absolute) superlative.

Thank you for your replies. I was hoping for a setting that would automatically take care of hiding the group name in a part. (Just like "Display Staff Name in Parts" does when unchecked.) But there doesn't seem to be such a setting. Which is a bit weird, as in the vast majority of cases one wouldn'...