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by TonyEastwood
Tue Mar 19, 2024 5:13 pm
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: Changing time signature of a selected region or bar
Replies: 11
Views: 367

Re: Changing time signature of a selected region or bar

On my laptop, just right now, alt-U correctly focusses on the measure box. This morning it did not. I'm not insane. Such intermittent behavior started with Windows 11. When alt-U works :D one can have a very simple script like : ;===== Scrolling in landscape mode ^+PgUp:: SetKeyDelay (50) Send, {Esc...
by TonyEastwood
Tue Mar 19, 2024 11:24 am
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: Changing time signature of a selected region or bar
Replies: 11
Views: 367

Re: Changing time signature of a selected region or bar

As retired professional programmer I can tell you that low level bugs will be in the toolkits used to build Finale or in Windows itself. Microsoft seems to 'delight' in breaking underlying functionality. A classic example is Finale in scroll view . The measure box has an accelerator key of alt-U . I...
by TonyEastwood
Tue Mar 19, 2024 9:57 am
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: Duplication in lyric box
Replies: 1
Views: 97

Re: Duplication in lyric box

Just in case anyone reads this and sees no replies . I have invented a workable solution for longer choral works. The essence of my solution is to paste the libretto section into a 'working area' in some lyric "sections.". Inevitably as I compose that will get messed up (as I illustrated above). Ho...
by TonyEastwood
Mon Mar 18, 2024 5:06 pm
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: Changing time signature of a selected region or bar
Replies: 11
Views: 367

Re: Changing time signature of a selected region or bar

RE: virtual stick key

Yes I've had stuck keys, not just in Finale but in Windows 11 (!)
by TonyEastwood
Mon Mar 18, 2024 10:50 am
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: Duplication in lyric box
Replies: 1
Views: 97

Duplication in lyric box

To compose traditional (fugal) choral music I begin by pasting hyphenated text into the lyric box. I always use click assignment to put the lyrics under notes I always use filter copy to copy text between parts. I can't use clone (the music is not sufficiently homophonic ). I'm so impressed by how w...
by TonyEastwood
Mon Mar 18, 2024 9:26 am
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: Changing time signature of a selected region or bar
Replies: 11
Views: 367

Re: Changing time signature of a selected region or bar

Thank you for your helpful replies, I think I've sorted it. After I restart Finale the time signature tool works exactly as you both describe (correctly). However, after 20-30 minutes extensive editing, (using many other tools including articulation, expression etc) the time signature behaviour grad...
by TonyEastwood
Fri Mar 15, 2024 11:01 am
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: Changing time signature of a selected region or bar
Replies: 11
Views: 367

Changing time signature of a selected region or bar

I'm confused by the operation of the type signature tool. If I select a number of bars (with shift down and mouse), continue to hold the shift key down and then double click in the last selected bar the time signature tool will pop up with the correct measures preselected - and I can choose a new ti...
by TonyEastwood
Fri Feb 23, 2024 3:54 pm
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: Sorting the list of expressions into alphabetical order
Replies: 3
Views: 199

Re: Sorting the list of expressions into alphabetical order

Thank you for your replies.

I do use categories, which does help, but one of the categories "Expressions" - which includes actual expressions such as "dolce" , "cantabile" etc inevitably gets quite large . I'll just have to discipline myself to keep them in alphabetical order :D
by TonyEastwood
Thu Feb 22, 2024 8:55 pm
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: Sorting the list of expressions into alphabetical order
Replies: 3
Views: 199

Sorting the list of expressions into alphabetical order

I've added many expressions and have a huge list of them. Is there a method which would put all my expressions into alphabetical order? (Sorting a list of names by hand feels exceptionally archaic). Another incredibly useful order would be one in which the 'most used' expressions were sorted to the ...
by TonyEastwood
Mon Feb 12, 2024 4:49 pm
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: Symbol Selection via keyboard
Replies: 3
Views: 204

Re: Symbol Selection via keyboard

Wow! Thank you for pointing me at the JW Change plug-in, its a huge tool kit. I'll certainly try it out.
by TonyEastwood
Mon Feb 12, 2024 12:25 pm
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: Symbol Selection via keyboard
Replies: 3
Views: 204

Symbol Selection via keyboard

I often use the Symbol Selection Dialog Box to change a notehead (e.g. to a diamond shape to indicate a harmonic). This involves some scrolling about :( to find the diamond symbol I want. (even though I know where it is) However all the items in the Symbol Selection dialog box are numbered . Can I u...
by TonyEastwood
Wed Jan 31, 2024 8:29 pm
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: Acoustic Guitar Sustain
Replies: 5
Views: 2007

Re: Acoustic Guitar Sustain

Mike Your example works absolutely perfectly. Thank you so much for your help. All the references I'd previously seen suggested using the line tool to express pedals- but for guitar that doesn't seem to work. However, your example uses the articulation tool - and not only does your example work but ...
by TonyEastwood
Wed Jan 31, 2024 4:35 pm
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: Acoustic Guitar Sustain
Replies: 5
Views: 2007

Re: Acoustic Guitar Sustain

Does this work? Can pedal markings do sustain on the guitar while the "pedal is down". I've tried it, but for me it seems to very little or zero effect. (If I write for piano it does work.) Am I missing some secret , is there low set up I can do? I'd really like to get this to work as I need my com...
by TonyEastwood
Mon Aug 28, 2023 7:18 pm
Forum: Playback Issues
Topic: Noteperformer issues
Replies: 21
Views: 13674

Re: Noteperformer issues

I'm assuming your playback starts but does not continue. Is that the correct assumption? In the playback settings there is an item called " Stop at ". It has the option to be the end of the piece or an actual numbered measure . Maybe it is set to an actual number? I accidentally set it like that mys...
by TonyEastwood
Wed Jun 07, 2023 11:19 am
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: Indicating Rasgueado
Replies: 4
Views: 1420

Re: Indicating Rasgueado

thanks ever much, exactly what I needed. :)
by TonyEastwood
Wed Jun 07, 2023 6:44 am
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: Indicating Rasgueado
Replies: 4
Views: 1420

Re: Indicating Rasgueado

Peter Thank you your reply. I'm using the expression tool for all technical guitaristic effects (e.g. fingerings, string markings, rasgueados etc ). I'm not using the articulation tool. But I can guess the expression tool has has 'effect' reserved for certain font slot ranges as otherwise one couldn...
by TonyEastwood
Tue Jun 06, 2023 10:31 am
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: Indicating Rasgueado
Replies: 4
Views: 1420

Indicating Rasgueado

In guitar music various up and down arrow styles can be used to indicate Rasgueados(strums). To get an upArrow I can use "U" (Capital 'U' character) in the EngraverText family font. This looks great. But, surprisingly it effects playback , adding a rit before and on the marked note :( Does anyone kn...
by TonyEastwood
Fri Jan 06, 2023 7:38 pm
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: Piano reduction plug not working?
Replies: 2
Views: 473

Re: Piano reduction plug not working?

Thank you for testing it. Actually the plug-in, even where it does work, doesn't quite do what I would want it to do – the result is more like a variation on 'implode' - each piano stave has all the note tails in the same direction. For choral work my conductor would expect two parts on each piano s...
by TonyEastwood
Fri Jan 06, 2023 9:50 am
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: Piano reduction plug not working?
Replies: 2
Views: 473

Piano reduction plug not working?

I've trying to add piano reduction to 3 short choral pieces 3 pages ( landscape A4 50 bars) and 5 pages and 9 pages . I'm just using the piano reduction plug in straight out-of-the-box. For all three pieces it begins processing – but never completes . If I stop finale after 15 minutes and let it rec...
by TonyEastwood
Thu Oct 27, 2022 12:13 pm
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: Articulation Dialogue appears flat/minimised
Replies: 5
Views: 2048

Re: Articulation Dialogue appears flat/minimised

I've had similar problem with the expression dialogue . This time I found a much better solution. Refreshing preferences always works – but it is distressing to then discover how many non-default preferences you use, and if (like me) you use a lot of macros and muscle memory when composing it's very...
by TonyEastwood
Tue Aug 30, 2022 8:30 pm
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: Finale 27 ludicrously slow to start
Replies: 32
Views: 15709

Re: Finale 27 ludicrously slow to start

RE: fixing it kind of breaks it in the end . I removed my ASIO months ago and its worked perfectly ( " works for me" ) ever since. So maybe the ASIO on your computer is "more intermittently faulty" than mine :( . You shouldn't have to wait 10 minutes for it to start – you should definitely raise a s...
by TonyEastwood
Sat Aug 13, 2022 6:17 pm
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: Space between the bar line and the first note of the bar.
Replies: 9
Views: 1547

Re: Space between the bar line and the first note of the bar.

RE: "space at beginning of measure" is controlled by 2 different settings.

Ah - that's exactly what I didn't realize. :D I only knew of one of them. :( So now with my increased understanding I can now solve the problem.

Many thanks
by TonyEastwood
Sat Aug 13, 2022 9:59 am
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: Space between the bar line and the first note of the bar.
Replies: 9
Views: 1547

Re: Space between the bar line and the first note of the bar.

This is what I see. It seems inconsistent (screen shot a bit muzzy but the Extra Space at Beginning and Extra Space at End are both zero. Finale Help says Show Measure Spacing Handles . Choose this option to display the measure spacing handles on each measure. With these two handles (on the bottom s...
by TonyEastwood
Sat Aug 13, 2022 8:55 am
Forum: Playback Issues
Topic: Layer playback
Replies: 13
Views: 4636

Re: Layer playback

No. I didn't get a reply . sorry.
by TonyEastwood
Sat Aug 13, 2022 8:52 am
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: Space between the bar line and the first note of the bar.
Replies: 9
Views: 1547

Re: Space between the bar line and the first note of the bar.

Thank you for your helpful replies Apologies for not replying sooner, I'd inadvertently not ticked the box that would notify me of your replies. For " Document Options - Music Spacing > Manual Positioning" I have "Ignore" - as I have made many manual note and accidental position adjustments, pressin...