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Nick Mazuk wrote:The only real issue right now is that not a ton of people have adopted it.

Very true. It's quite a learning curve, but it's absolutely worth it.

Nothing worked as I had hoped. [...]I think the safest thing for me to do is to eyeball each occurence and change them manually with a macro. Not necessary; this JWLua code searches for occurences of a quarter rest followed by an eighth rest, replaces the quarter rest with a dotted one and removes ...

The JWLua script "Slur Phrases.lua" in the zip file below searches for phrases within a selected region in multiple staves and slurs them. Make yourself familiar with JWLua before trying it out. Background: We discussed adding single slurs with hotkeys in the German forum . I suggested a JWLua solut...

I do support Anders' view of the situation. Indeed, it's quite interesting to get some insight how Finale is used by others and how users think of Finale as a notation/composing/producing tool. It reminds me that I probably use the very same software in a quite different fashion than others, which i...

Yes, the plus sign is very often used for #5. I would recommend to use #5 instead, because there's no doubt about what to do. Students could figure it out by themselves easily. To answer the initial question on A+9, it should be A9(#5) preferrably, in my opinion. But whether the + really means a #5 ...

Does anybody else encounter the issue when relabeling measure regions, the font changes (specifically to Maestro rather than Times New Roman)? It's very annoying and tedious to reset the font every time I have to create regions, and I'm wondering if anyone here has solutions. You can change the fon...

Is there a more satisfying feeling when composing in Finale, writing a harmony line that sounds just right in Speedy Entry or creating a violin section that compliments the lead voice in melody and character? Well, composing in Finale doesn‘t give me an equal flow in creativity just as sitting at t...

German: Score = „Partitur“, Parts = „Stimmen“ or „Einzelstimmen“ You would use „Stimmen“ in a professional context, when it‘s clear that you speak of a score and parts. Watch out for the capital letter, „stimmen“ instead would mean „tuning“... You would use „Einzelstimmen“ in a non-professional cont...

I seems to me that the dotted-quarter controversy is at least somewhat genre-related. Jazz players are more used to reading syncopation (e.g. eighth notes tied over the barline anticipating the downbeat) than classical players. Yes, it‘s genre-related, but it‘s also country- and time-related, as th...

Yes, you‘re right in all advantages of a DAW, but the question was why you would prefer exporting an Audio file from Finale rather than a MIDI file which would give you these and a lot more editing possibilities, including tempo changes.

Especially with Autohotkey and Bome's MIDI Translator, we PC users do have some very strong tools for hotkeys. These possibilities don't exist similarly for the Mac. If used wise, Autohotkey can save lots of time.

My arena of music engraving is educational music (school band and orchestra). This figure is almost always notated or edited to be "dotted quarter/eighth tied to quarter". A possible reason is that it is, after all, a syncopation. Showing the eighth tied to quarter subdivision indicates clearly whe...

In the attached .mus file, using the Selection tool, if you click on the first gliss. symbol (not the text), it appears in the bottom left corner of a small frame. These gliss. symbol frames appear gradually larger toward the end of a document. In the image below, the same symbol in its original lo...

ebiggs1 wrote:You can tell Finale to print whatever and it still does it own thing.

What happens if you open the print dialog, check a part and enter "2" in the "Copies" column? You say Finale does its own thing - does it really ignore the number of copies?

If yes, something is seriously broken.

Don't know if I understood the problem right, but... If I would want to print a part twice on a single piece of paper, I would tell Finale to print 2 copies of the part in the print dialog. Then, in the printer driver/settings dialog, I would tell the printer to print two pages on a single sheet by ...

I would avoid any solution which leads to different measure numbers among players or the score. These scenarios often lead to unproductive and lenghty discussions in rehearsals. Instead, you might give the Tpt 2 two staves, where the 16-bar solo is written out over the 8 repeated bars which everyone...

You can use this JWLua script as a start. It creates a text block on page 1 containing all staff names. Make yourself familiar with JWLua before trying it out. -- Create a FCString with the raw Enigma string local InstrumentList = finale.FCString() InstrumentList.LuaString = "^font(Times New Roman)^...

If you want to raise the chance that MakeMusic notices this feature's urgent need, feel free to vote for it on the feature requests forum: https://makemusic.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/ ... ssignation

The discussion moves away from the original topic, and I plead myself guilty of that, too... How is it more versatile? It looks like it scrolls one measure to the left or right. It's more versatile because it's language independent. All Autohotkey scripts relying on the measure selection box being a...

The more versatile AHK script which simulates mouse clicks in horizontal scroll bar is by Charles Lawrence (RIP) and can be found here (3rd posting from the bottom). This script has saved me lots of time.

Can anyone suggest a fix so that either of these articulations sit exactly equidistant between staff lines. If you double-click the staccato dot, the Articulation Designer dialog box pops up. There you'll find the Handle Positioning dialog box where you can enter additional up/down positioning valu...

Hello, I don't have any experience with FinaleScript, so it's possible (=probable) that I did something wrong. ;) This isn't a FinaleScript, this is a JWLua script. You need the JWLua plugin first. Make yourself familiar with it, then paste my code into the development window. Then you can select a ...

maennis1112 wrote:Anybody else with an idea?

Entering crescendos in one-line staves works with my JWLua script from here. It will be anchored properly within the measure, not to the start of the current and next measure.

This is what I have: Finale Version: 2014 JWLua Plug-in Version: 0.45 Finale 2014 was a 32bit program. Lua 0.45 obviously as well . If this Lua version doesn't contain the FCCellText class (which it obviously does not), there's no way you can get it to work on your system. JWLua 0.54 does indeed su...

The following JWLua code should give Finale's version and the JWLua plug-in's version: print("Finale Version: ",finenv.FinaleVersion) print ("JWLua Plug-in Version: ",finenv.StringVersion) Which, in my case, returns: Running [Unnamed Script] ======> Finale Version: 2025 JWLua Plug-in Version: 0.54 <...