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The free font "Toccata" has these glyphs.

Select "bracket full duration" in tuplet definition window.

Are these divisi-staves part of a group? Check that they are marked "optimize normally" (or what the saying is, Finale now not open).

Most likely a "guide line". Go to View - Grid/Guide - Show Guides to turn it off.

I think soprano trombone is just ONE octave above tenor - same size as normal B flat trumpet.

In Verdi's time all trombones (in Italy) were valve trombones. This explains some of the acrobatic passages in e.g. Rossini operas. And "true" cimbasso (again, in Verdi's time) was a bassoon-like wooden instrument with cup mouthpiece. The modern cimbasso - a formidable instrument in its own right - ...

One important (but often overlooked) thing which helps harpists is remembering to add naturals when pedal is returned from flat/sharp position. Harpist, who is sightreading (think film or similar gigs) or reading part through 1st time to mark pedalling, sees the natural and moves/marks pedal accordi...

...unless you enter the "rit. - - - -" as Tempo or Tempo alteration. Then it will be in all parts. Con side is that you may need to edit the length for every part.

The Z-symbol can be found from Bravura (or its Finale-variants), free font Toccata and fonts from certain other engraving program. Or you can make you own in Shape Designer. For those two adjacent notes I'd use tuplet tool - 2 quarters in space of one (and hide bracket&number). Then create a shape (...

Good font for many kinds of modern music symbols is Bravura (free), And you can get the arrow line from smart shapes; ctrl-click the last box, you get to select from many more special lines. If you need even more bizarre symbols, nice and free font is Symbola. You can Google both fonts easily.