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by elbsound
Sun May 26, 2019 10:49 am
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: Separate font choice for Alternate Notation
Replies: 2
Views: 1566

Re: Separate font choice for Alternate Notation

Reprise is a Sibelius font and not compatible with Finale's Maestro. It's not possible to use two fonts for Alternate Notation, but you could create a one-bar repeat expression and use this instead of the one-bar repeat staff style. This was one of the tricks I used in making incompatible fonts comp...
by elbsound
Thu May 09, 2019 3:44 pm
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: Finale 26.1 released
Replies: 29
Views: 11349

Re: Finale 26.1 released

The official price has not been released. It still depends on if MakeMusic will take part and promote the plug-in, so that it can reach a much larger audience. As a newsletter recipient you can currently get the limited version (max. 400 measures/35 staves) for ca. 100 Eur (80 Eur net) and the unlim...
by elbsound
Wed May 08, 2019 2:38 pm
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: Finale 26.1 released
Replies: 29
Views: 11349

Re: Finale 26.1 released

Yes, both 32bit and 64bit.
JW Lua for 64bit has been released in 2017.
by elbsound
Wed May 08, 2019 2:29 pm
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: Finale 26.1 released
Replies: 29
Views: 11349

Re: Finale 26.1 released

But I thought the Perfect Layout plugin required the use of some JW element that had still not been released? The public beta is available since last November and comes with an installer that automatically installs all required elements. (And sorry for the wrong quote in quote which is already wron...
by elbsound
Wed May 08, 2019 1:30 pm
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: Finale 26.1 released
Replies: 29
Views: 11349

Re: Finale 26.1 released

Even MuseScore 3 boasts collision avoidance and automatic layout. The parts have an untidy layout... Try the "Perfect Layout" plug-in for Finale/Windows: https://elbsound.studio/perfect-layout It solves collision avoidance, automatic score layout, cleaning up of parts and much more. Here are a few ...
by elbsound
Tue May 07, 2019 6:03 am
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: Can someone check my score?
Replies: 5
Views: 2653

Re: Can someone check my score?

Here are a few improvements documented in this 4 minute video and downloadable below (made with Fin2014.5): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sXJfZ14Qkfk Done: - Replace tempo mark page texts with expressions - Use JW Yada Yada for tremolo - Use Patterson Beams - Hide staff styles removed to make the ...
by elbsound
Mon Apr 29, 2019 3:34 pm
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: Chord symbol spacing
Replies: 3
Views: 1954

Re: Chord symbol spacing

Yes, the plug-in can do both: change the position of the chord symbol and/or change the position of the chord suffixes. In other words: you can keep the position of the (first) chord suffix and move the chord symbol only. Or keep the position of the chord symbol and move the chord suffixes away. Or ...
by elbsound
Mon Apr 29, 2019 2:06 pm
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: Chord symbol spacing
Replies: 3
Views: 1954

Re: Chord symbol spacing

There is a JW Lua plug-in script that can do this ( https://elbsound.studio/jw-lua-scripts.php#changechordgap ). It does exactly what you say: it changes the horizontal offset of all chord suffix symbols (from all chords) by a given offset. Though I don't know how good JW Lua performs in Fin2007. I ...
by elbsound
Mon Apr 15, 2019 11:43 am
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: November 2 font not recognised
Replies: 6
Views: 2140

Re: November 2 font not recognised

Yes, that is correct. You always get a warning (at least on Windows, don't know about MacOS) when you use a music font that is not included in MacSymbolFonts.txt.
by elbsound
Mon Apr 15, 2019 9:54 am
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: November 2 font not recognised
Replies: 6
Views: 2140

Re: November 2 font not recognised

You write that you removed the three references. You should remove only November2.
The other fonts (I assume November and NovemberExtra) are non-unicode fonts. AFAIK they should be included in MacSymbolFonts.txt.
by elbsound
Fri Apr 12, 2019 6:47 am
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: Good set of chord suffixes in jazz fonts for sale?
Replies: 13
Views: 6173

Re: Good set of chord suffixes in jazz fonts for sale?

Here are a few examples including many handwritten samples of Finale chord libraries created with a JW Lua plug-in. All visible images were created from the same source library and then converted to a new font style. https://elbsound.studio/chord-style-plugin.php Unfortunately the new Pori chord fon...
by elbsound
Thu Apr 11, 2019 6:26 pm
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: November 2 font not recognised
Replies: 6
Views: 2140

Re: November 2 font not recognised

November2 must not be added to MacSymbolFonts.txt.
It's a unicode font.

MacSymbolFonts.txt only needs the old "0-255 symbol" fonts, but not modern unicode fonts like November2, Aruvarb or the LilyPond fonts.
by elbsound
Wed Mar 27, 2019 12:56 pm
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: Change Symbol Font
Replies: 20
Views: 8339

Re: Change Symbol Font

GNU FreeSerif font has all symbols in Unicode ranges, and also the notation symbols. It is also a free font.
And its Finale version FreeSerifFIN is also fully Maestro-compatible.
https://elbsound.studio/music-font-comp ... eeSerifFIN
by elbsound
Fri Mar 01, 2019 9:48 am
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: Articulation too high
Replies: 9
Views: 3943

Re: Articulation too high

It looks like a font annotation issue to me. Probably the correct font annotation files are missing in Finale 26. You should recreate the font annotation file (Preferences->Edit->Font Annotation , select the music font and click on Auto-Annotate All and then Save). This should solve the problem - yo...
by elbsound
Fri Mar 01, 2019 8:47 am
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: Favourite font for triplets/tuplets
Replies: 3
Views: 2493

Re: Favourite font for triplets/tuplets

The Profondo font comes with a tuplet font called Profondo Tuplet Numbers ( https://github.com/OpenLilyPondFonts/profondo/tree/master/supplementary-fonts ). You could also browse this page with samples of many text fonts used in musical scores including tuplet numbers: https://elbsound.studio/text-f...
by elbsound
Tue Feb 19, 2019 2:40 pm
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: How to get a SQUARE FRAME around text
Replies: 6
Views: 3122

Re: How to get a SQUARE FRAME around text

There are a number of text fonts that already include rectangles, squares or circles around the letters.
Check out this font list:
https://elbsound.studio/music-fonts.php#rehearsal
by elbsound
Tue Jan 22, 2019 11:50 am
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: Can Anyone Identify these Text Fonts?
Replies: 6
Views: 2973

Re: Can Anyone Identify these Text Fonts?

This text font preview might help identifying the fonts. "Century", "Modern" and "Schola" are good keywords for browsing the page with your example. Only free fonts: https://elbsound.studio/text-fonts-free-download.php?userwords1=dal+Segno&userwords4=dal+Segno Also commercial fonts: https://elbsound...
by elbsound
Tue Nov 27, 2018 5:43 pm
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: "reverse" grupetto or turn
Replies: 4
Views: 3507

Re: "reverse" grupetto or turn

You could check this "hard-to-find" music symbol catalog.
It includes about 100 music fonts with the inverted turn symbol - some look exactly like or at least extremly similar to the Maestro symbol.
https://elbsound.studio/catalog-of-musi ... rninverted

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by elbsound
Mon Nov 12, 2018 10:45 am
Forum: Beginners
Topic: crescendo
Replies: 2
Views: 2306

Re: crescendo

Do it as a combination of an expression with a hairpin.
Here are a few fonts that include this symbol:
https://elbsound.studio/catalog-of-musi ... cendomolto
by elbsound
Fri Oct 26, 2018 4:16 pm
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: Plugin makers: How did you learn?
Replies: 4
Views: 2761

Re: Plugin makers: How did you learn?

If you want to learn JW Lua, join the JW Lua mailing and analyze the existing JW Lua scripts.
Here is a collection of links to nearly all scripts that have been posted somewhere in the last 4 years:
https://elbsound.studio/jw-lua-scripts.php
by elbsound
Thu Oct 18, 2018 10:24 am
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: Ottavina font... is there an update?
Replies: 12
Views: 4920

Re: Ottavina font... is there an update?

Hm, the link works for me.
You can try this direct link:
http://fontforge.github.io/en-US/downloads/windows-dl/
by elbsound
Thu Oct 18, 2018 7:15 am
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: Ottavina font... is there an update?
Replies: 12
Views: 4920

Re: Ottavina font... is there an update?

Ottavina can be downloaded here: https://web.archive.org/web/20161007020417/http://musegraph.com/ottavina-free/ The "Medium" font weight is a known problem in Finale. See https://elbsound.studio/font-names-in-finale.php#fontweights The workarounds are also described there. BTW, how do you use the Ot...
by elbsound
Sun Sep 23, 2018 12:55 pm
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: Can Bravura be used as it is?
Replies: 7
Views: 4493

Re: Can Bravura be used as it is?

If you're on MacOS, there is a bug with all unicode symbol fonts in Finale: it is not possible to access symbols 129-159. These symbols are available in other slots though, but not in the original Maestro slots. This goes for example for November2, Aruvarb, Bravura, all Lilypond fonts, etc. On Windo...