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I'm not an admin, but for what it's worth I'd like to state my support to your request. I'va faced exactly the same problem while searching for "time signature". I want to find out how to write complex time sigs, like 6/8=2/4, but the two search terms rejected in the same way as yours. To admins, pl...

Hi. I need to write a dashed stem on an isolated 16th note, instead of the standard solid stem. I tried replacing the stem with a dashed line by using the Custum Stem Tool in the Special Tools, but that deletes the flag and the stem is not then ajustable if you try to use Beam Angle Tool or the Stem...

Thanks to all, especially michelp who provided the best solution. @#84, no can do. This is for a critical edition of an early 19th century opera that will be performed on period instruments. The parts are always in C, on top of which the instrument will apply a transposition. Simply unchecking key s...

Noobiest of noobs, i'm sure... but here it goes. I have a french horn in E flat part, which i notate without displaying the key signature (as customary for horns and trumpets). I'm doing this by choosing E flat transposition and un-checking the key signature item in "items to display" in Staff Attri...

Thanks, it worked!

Hi, i read all the posts i could find here about tremolos and couldn't find an answer to my question, so here it goes: I need to create a demisemiquavers alternating tremolo (between two chords) for the full length of a crotchet, BUT i need the top beam ONLY attached to both stems. The middle and lo...

Thanks, it works.

Here goes the zipped file. The syllable "ri" should go on the e in sop I, where the quavers are beamed together. Anyhow, it happens just one measure here and there; most of the time both parts have the same rhythm and it's enough to put lyrics below, so it would look rather cluttered to have lyrics ...

I'm not sure if the file uploaded properly, so i'm sending it again. I'm using Finale 2008 btw. Oddly enough .MUS files are not allowed on these posts... On a Finale forum... go figure.

Hi, I think this is quite trivial, but I did a search in the forum and couldn't find a previous answer to my problem, so here it goes. I have a choral soprano staff with two parts (soprani I & II), where they have same lyrics but different rhythms at times. As you can see in the attached file, on th...

I'm having the same problem. I have an octave chord, and I want the top notehead to be smaller than the bottom one (75%). Yet, no matter how many times I click on the notehead using the % tool or how much I enlarge the image, I never get the "Resize Notehead" box to appear. Every time I click - and ...

michelp wrote:Create duplicates of the shape each time you need a modified version. The original will remain intact.

Thanks. I hadn't noticed that. Still, on each score I have a few dozens of these signs. Do I have to duplicate it that much? Are you sure there isn't another way of doing this? Cheers.

Hello to all. If you have seen a Rossini manuscript or a critical edition you'll know his typical crescendo notation. They look like a triangle pointing either left (crescendo) or right (decrescendo). If you haven't, just imagine the usual cres/decresc hairpins and connect the open end with a straig...