Finale Forum

For some reason in Finale 27, the window icons for rests and articulations and such are lighter, whereas in 26 they were just black. Is there any way to change this? Obviously it's a minor thing but it's weird that they changed it and it makes it look like it's at a lower resolution than it was.

That is indeed an annoying shortcoming with the Shape Designer’s sub-tool Text Tool: You can not Paste a font character into a text block - you have to type the font character. I used the font Engraver Text, and typed a ‘:’ (colon). That keystroke (= colon) gave me a right-pointing arrow. Even with...

… how did you add the arrow font character to the line? When I click on yours it looks like it's all one object but I don't see an option to add font characters in the smart shape options. No, not in the Smart Shape Options, but rather in the Smart Line Designer. In the Smart Line Designer you can ...

… Trying to copy and paste it into a separate score isn't working. It works for me: From the Selection Tool, double-click the measure stack, to select it. Now, you can Copy the entire measure stack, and Paste it into another Finale document. The downward arpeggio Custom Line will be copied/pasted w...

miker wrote: ↑

Thu Apr 21, 2022 9:43 pm

If the one Peter used is OK, copy it into your document. Then, you will have it to use in your custom line tools.

I don't know how to do either of those. Trying to copy and paste it into a separate score isn't working.

… I'm able to get a longer downward arpeggio so thank you for that but is there any way to change the size of the arrowhead? 3 is too small and 5 is too big … From your description it sounds like you are trying the preset arrowheads. Instead of using one of the preset arrowheads you could create yo...

… That worked but my only problem now is that I want it to span both staves, but I'm not able to lengthen it … The arrow character comes in 3 lengths (= 3 different font characters). It looks like you are using the longest arrow character. To get a longer arrow than the longest arrow character, ins...

Only that downward arpeggio should be in that font. Add it as an articulation. The rest of the score should be in whatever music font you have as the default. (That's how it looks to me, anyway...) That worked but my only problem now is that I want it to span both staves, but I'm not able to length...

michelp wrote: ↑

Wed Apr 20, 2022 11:12 am

If you are looking for arrows pointing up or down, they are available a.o. in the EngraverTextNCS font.

It looks like Finale knows it's a font I have but it's just not installed completely? Do you know how to fix this?

Is there a downward rolled chord articulation? I can only see the regular one in the articulations options

Great, thank you! I ended up removing the dotted half rest but put a quarter rest on beat 3 so you'd know the 16ths come on beat 4

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Ah that's unfortunate

I found a musx font file for Kousaku in my Finale files somehow, but I'm not able to load it into my scores. How do I install it?

I know this is super picky but I was wondering if I could change the width of the accent articulation, since in Finale it's a little thicker than what I'm used to seeing.

So I've set up my fingering numbers to be above the staff for treble clef, and would like to make them below the staff for bass. I know I can duplicate articulations but I can't seem to make a version specifically for bass clef. I could just move them manually of course but it'd be nice

zuill wrote: ↑

Tue Apr 20, 2021 3:30 am

Okay. Brace tip. Got it.

In Document options, Piano Braces and Brackets, change the Tip thickness to 0 (zero). That should do it.

Zuill

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awesome, thank you so much!

I don't like how the tips of the system braces in Finale are cut off when they're pointed in every other software/score I've seen. Any way to change this? I thought it would change with a different music font

- but that just turns off Layer colors completely...I'm wondering if I can have them visible during playback, but I don't want to see them when I'm looking at the sheet music, after clicking away from the score. MuseScore does this automatically. I guess I could just put in the layers I need with c...

Am I able to turn off layer colors when looking at the score? I think constantly seeing layer 2's color even when I click away from the score is annoying/distracting. I'm fine with it showing during playback but I don't wanna constantly be seeing it.