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by Blacklab88
Mon Nov 18, 2019 9:15 pm
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: Transferring Expression Library from one Doc to another Doc
Replies: 6
Views: 2232

Re: Transferring Expression Library from one Doc to another Doc

I'm not sure if the following remark will be relevant, but here it is : A new category should have at least one modified parameter (font, positioning, ... via Edit Category). If it is not the case, the category will not be transferrable to another document. Is there a section in the Help Manual tha...
by Blacklab88
Mon Nov 18, 2019 5:15 pm
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: Transferring Expression Library from one Doc to another Doc
Replies: 6
Views: 2232

Re: Transferring Expression Library from one Doc to another Doc

Thanks, Michel and N. Makes sense. I'll try modifying as suggested and see what happens. It does seem to me, though, that there would or should be a way to transfer such a library to another doc, no? Since Finale will not put a search engine in the libraries, the only way for me to organize all my n...
by Blacklab88
Mon Nov 18, 2019 9:51 am
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: Transferring Expression Library from one Doc to another Doc
Replies: 6
Views: 2232

Re: Transferring Expression Library from one Doc to another Doc

Thanks, N. Here's what happened previously: While working in document #1, I modified a Text Expression library by adding some edited expressions, moving expressions to other categories, and adding 3 categories. I saved the library at each step. I then closed document #1, and shut down the computer. ...
by Blacklab88
Sun Nov 17, 2019 10:19 pm
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: Transferring Expression Library from one Doc to another Doc
Replies: 6
Views: 2232

Transferring Expression Library from one Doc to another Doc

There are a few explanations of how to transfer a custom expression library from one document to another, but I'll have to admit I don't understand them. Does anyone have a link or a simple explanation (assuming there might be one)? Thanks. Here's what I observed, but I may be making a fundamental m...
by Blacklab88
Tue Oct 22, 2019 4:37 pm
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: Delete one staff from system in Finale 25
Replies: 5
Views: 2466

Re: Delete one staff from system in Finale 25

Thanks for the clarity, Michael!
by Blacklab88
Mon Oct 21, 2019 7:39 pm
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: Delete one staff from system in Finale 25
Replies: 5
Views: 2466

Re: Delete one staff from system in Finale 25

Thank you both!!
by Blacklab88
Mon Oct 21, 2019 6:07 pm
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: Delete one staff from system in Finale 25
Replies: 5
Views: 2466

Delete one staff from system in Finale 25

This has been covered before, but the instructions don't seem to match up with Finale 25. I need to delete a cue staff in a piano score, but only in a few systems. Could someone run through the steps in Finale 25? Thanks very much.
by Blacklab88
Fri Oct 18, 2019 6:26 pm
Forum: Wishlist
Topic: Piano composers, unite!
Replies: 22
Views: 31542

Re: Piano composers, unite!

Thanks, Peter.
This means that for any older score I open to edit or re-do, I have to create new pedal metatools.
Ah, well....ours is not to reason "why", eh?
by Blacklab88
Wed Oct 16, 2019 8:32 pm
Forum: Wishlist
Topic: Piano composers, unite!
Replies: 22
Views: 31542

Re: Piano composers, unite!

So I was going along merrily using my pedal metatools, left Finale for a day, loaded up an old file to work on, and when I went to use the metatools I had programmed, they had all been replaced with the defaults. What did I do?
Thanks.
by Blacklab88
Wed Oct 16, 2019 8:31 pm
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: Bug in deleting notes in chord?
Replies: 8
Views: 2854

Re: Bug in deleting notes in chord?

I wonder what the problem is. I can delete a G below the staff. Make sure you're in the right layer. It depends upon the distance between staves. If they are close, you end up getting into the "zone" of the stave below and the eraser has no effect. Ah! So just move the problem staves farther apart....
by Blacklab88
Wed Oct 09, 2019 8:57 pm
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: Bug in deleting notes in chord?
Replies: 8
Views: 2854

Re: Bug in deleting notes in chord?

Don't know. Yup, I was in the right layer. I have Finale 24....maybe a bug?
by Blacklab88
Wed Oct 09, 2019 8:43 pm
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: Bug in deleting notes in chord?
Replies: 8
Views: 2854

Re: Bug in deleting notes in chord?

Thanks, Peter and David. Got it!
Question: who, in their infinite wisdom, decides what is "too low" on the ledger lines? Pianists are accustomed to reading ledger lines, and switching clefs in a ledger line is sometimes pretty ugly. Maybe that's not the point, and has to do with spatial measurements?
by Blacklab88
Wed Oct 09, 2019 8:36 pm
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: Aligning notes in separate layers
Replies: 10
Views: 3582

Re: Aligning notes in separate layers

Thanks, all. Both of those posts were necessary to right the wrong.
by Blacklab88
Wed Oct 09, 2019 7:15 pm
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: Bug in deleting notes in chord?
Replies: 8
Views: 2854

Bug in deleting notes in chord?

Normally, I can go to a chord in Simple Entry and delete individual notes in the chord. I have a treble clef chord that goes down to G below middle C, and Simple Entry eraser will NOT delete it. It can delete any of the other notes in the same chord. Is this a bug? Also, is there a way to delete sin...
by Blacklab88
Wed Oct 09, 2019 6:31 pm
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: Aligning notes in separate layers
Replies: 10
Views: 3582

Aligning notes in separate layers

I'm sure there's an easy answer to this, but I can't find it. I have 2 layers in the upper staff of a piano score. The top layer is a melody line with the stems going up to separate the line from chords, also played by the RH, on a different layer with stems going down. There's a passage where both ...
by Blacklab88
Wed Oct 02, 2019 4:58 pm
Forum: Wishlist
Topic: Piano composers, unite!
Replies: 22
Views: 31542

Re: Piano composers, unite!

Or as a ***** owner said about gamblers: "When a lion and a lamb are locked in a room together, sometimes the lamb comes out....but not very often." By the way, I've assigned my most-used pedal markings to metatools, and my process has speeded up a lot. I just keep a card with drawings of the pedal ...
by Blacklab88
Wed Oct 02, 2019 12:24 am
Forum: Wishlist
Topic: Piano composers, unite!
Replies: 22
Views: 31542

Re: Piano composers, unite!

Ha! I was 6 at the time and kind of got by without reading notes until my teacher figured that out, so I imagine that images spoke more to me. Definitely a lamb..... :D
Seriously, the symbols don't work at all for modern pedaling...way too ambiguous.
by Blacklab88
Tue Oct 01, 2019 6:02 pm
Forum: Wishlist
Topic: Piano composers, unite!
Replies: 22
Views: 31542

Re: Piano composers, unite!

Ha!
Okay. Maybe I needed glasses, but this looks like a lamb lying down. Of course, I live in a place where you actually SEE lambs, not just lamb chops.
pedal marking.png
by Blacklab88
Thu Sep 19, 2019 1:11 am
Forum: Wishlist
Topic: Piano composers, unite!
Replies: 22
Views: 31542

Re: Piano composers, unite!

Thanks for the help, everybody. Greatly appreciated.
I'll be back!
And David Ward, take a look at those archaic pedal symbols. When I took piano lessons at age 6, I couldn't understand why there were little sheep all over the page. Followed by stars. Check it out.
by Blacklab88
Wed Sep 18, 2019 8:41 pm
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: Creating directional strummed or arpeggiated chords
Replies: 7
Views: 2602

Re: Creating directional strummed or arpeggiated chords

Thanks, N. Must have done something wrong, but closed Finale and tried again. Works great.
I'm just going to post these words so other less adept users like me can find this:
Create Smart Shape Custom Line pedaling metatools.
by Blacklab88
Wed Sep 18, 2019 7:35 pm
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: Creating directional strummed or arpeggiated chords
Replies: 7
Views: 2602

Re: Creating directional strummed or arpeggiated chords

And thanks, N!
It looks like I can only program 4 Custom line metatools? I easily use 8 in my piano scores.
by Blacklab88
Wed Sep 18, 2019 6:00 pm
Forum: Wishlist
Topic: Piano composers, unite!
Replies: 22
Views: 31542

Re: Piano composers, unite!

Hmmm....didn't know you could assign Metatools to a Smartline selection. Will figure it out. The directional strum markings still look convoluted to me. My pedal markings are pretty complex. I don't use those archaic pedal markings that look like sheep. And I don't come to this forum often enough to...
by Blacklab88
Wed Sep 18, 2019 4:15 pm
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: Creating directional strummed or arpeggiated chords
Replies: 7
Views: 2602

Creating directional strummed or arpeggiated chords

I found a post from 2012 about how to do this, but it is so convoluted and tweaky that it's practically useless. In my piano compositions, I do a lot of faux guitar-strum chords. They change direction often, and sometimes the left hand goes up and the right hand goes down. Is there an easy way to no...
by Blacklab88
Wed Sep 18, 2019 4:01 pm
Forum: Wishlist
Topic: Piano composers, unite!
Replies: 22
Views: 31542

Piano composers, unite!

Really? There has to be more piano music written than any other type, right? Why are the piano-specific functions in Finale so convoluted and unhelpful? Please think about this and implement. Pedal markings take WAY too long to choose and place. And some other things require ridiculously long workar...