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As a moderator, my task is not to answer every question (which I couldn't.) It's simply to step in with a calming voice when threads may be heating up with personal attacks, or remove and ban obvious spammers.

Can you post the file here? I'm sure the gurus can figure it out.

Do you have a print copy? If you do, scan it and send it to me, and I'll see what I can do.

Are you acquainted with Jucio Brennen’s Lyric Hyphenator? https://juiciobrennan.com/hyphenator/ I tried this. It worked on one thing, crashed on another. This one line makes it crash. How reliable is it? It's you. How nice to see you. Now get out. Maybe because there’s nothing that needs hyphenatio...

There are a lot of things that don’t work the way they should. Unfortunately they are unable (or unwilling) to fix them. This is just another one of many.

If you have a slur over a number of notes (melisma), you may use Shift lyrics. There are a few simple options, but what I think you'd need in this case is Shift lyrics to the right, and Shift syllables by one note to the end of the lyric. That's how I do it. Sometimes, you go too far by mistake, an...

Right. When you click the lyrics in one by one, you skip the slurs and put the next lyric where it belongs. Unfortunately, that doesn’t happen with flowing them in.

Are you acquainted with Jucio Brennen’s Lyric Hyphenator? https://juiciobrennan.com/hyphenator/

Exactly as Anders says. On a Mac, opt-click flows the lyrics in, but I guess it’s different on Windows. Ties will be skipped automatically, and use Shift Lyrics to go over slurs.

A good find to keep in mind!

In this case, playback was all I needed. So, it didn’t matter how it looked.

Thanks to all!

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Sat Jan 13, 2024 4:24 am

I wonder what's going on. I've never had Space Systems Evenly misbehave, though I usually only do one page at a time.

If there is a secret, I’ll bet that’s it. If it’s one of the original plugins, it may have some misbehaving code.

That’s what I did; just tied double whole notes front to back.

I have a piece that's written as chant, with time signatures jumping around: 14/4, 3/4, 9/4, 3/4, jumble around, rinse and repeat. This is no problem, I have the SATB parts entered. However, there is a bass drone under the entire piece. I figured I'd use the organ for sound, but is there a way to se...

You might be better off doing that in the PDF stage (assuming you save your docs as PDFs before distributing.) I know that requests to move image elements back or forward has been requested for at least a decade.

Or do your image in a program that allows it, and place it as a combined graphic.

Thanks, Peter. I never knew to look there, even though it's obvious.


Why does Finale put things in so many places...?

Please look at the attached. I can't get the KS to show in the lower four staves. It came in from a scan.I have checked the original in SmartScore, and the KSs are there. They all show that the KS should appear in both the staff properties and measure properties. I have exported and reimported, with...

Enter and hide the original expressions. Use text expressions for the Grainger stylings.

Thanks to all who responded. It was very helpful, and I couldn't find anything in the user manual about this. A note to David Ward and Buon Tempi, as I write I'm looking at a brand new (Barenreiter) score of the St. Matthew Passion (JSB), 8ths and 16ths are NOT beamed when they fall on a single syl...

Thanks to you all. After sitting through Jason's Installing Lua video, I have successfully installed both the RGP Lua, and the Change Pitch plugin.

Happy camper, once again!

JW Change Pitches is not in the Finale bundle, and when I tried to load it, I got the message that it wasn't approved.

Does anyone have a useful replacement?

Something is amiss. I would suggest uninstalling the program, and downloading a fresh installer.

That’s a nice treat for the new year!

Set up your time signature as straight sixteenths. For example, if your piece is in 4/4, set the time signature as 16, sixteenths, to display as 4/4.

However, that is an older convention. It's more usual to beam to the time signature.

Start with both staves, use the Staff tool, and Hide Empty Staves

Never even thought to look there! Thanks!