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by at8ax
Sat Jun 13, 2015 9:30 pm
Forum: Beginners
Topic: How do I copy text?
Replies: 5
Views: 6234

Re: How do I copy text?

It's not clear from your original post what all of your steps are. What are you doing in between apple-C and apple-V?
by at8ax
Sun Feb 15, 2015 8:52 pm
Forum: Hardware Issues
Topic: Lyric hyphens between words (XML translation issue)
Replies: 4
Views: 4660

Re: Lyric hyphens between words (XML translation issue)

Are all of the hyphens present in the Lyrics Window? If so, maybe Copy All and transfer to Word, and replace the hyphens with spaces? If not, first thing I'd check is Document Options/Lyrics/Maximum Space Between Hyphens. Make it 1 and see what happens.
by at8ax
Wed Feb 11, 2015 8:56 pm
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: Tie Removes Accidental
Replies: 6
Views: 4139

Re: Tie Removes Accidental

This is weird. Just tried it, and sure enough. I've never encountered this, probably because my workflow is different from yours. When I enter the Gb and immediately enter the tie, then when I enter the G natural, the accidental is showing. (Speedy entry, 2014) But if the notes are already in place ...
by at8ax
Tue Feb 10, 2015 8:01 pm
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: Tie Removes Accidental
Replies: 6
Views: 4139

Re: Tie Removes Accidental

Regrettably, the YouTube video is "private." Yes, a slur is what's needed here, but I'm still confused. Putting a tie on the Gb that connects it to the G natural shouldn't make the natural sign disappear. Playback would be affected, sure, but that should be it. I'm most interested to know more about...
by at8ax
Sun Sep 21, 2014 2:47 pm
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: Make a "template" work on another computer.
Replies: 4
Views: 2766

Re: Make a "template" work on another computer.

"the bar line changes" = the width of the measure changes? Have your friend shut off automatic spacing.
by at8ax
Thu Aug 28, 2014 4:01 pm
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: Lyric spacing
Replies: 3
Views: 1942

Re: Lyric spacing

To adjust the lyric baseline for only one system, you use the third triangle.
by at8ax
Thu Aug 21, 2014 10:24 pm
Forum: Finale Songwriter
Topic: songwriter subtitle not displaying
Replies: 5
Views: 16523

Re: songwriter subtitle not displaying

Subtitle is a Text Insert which appears only when you choose it within an active Text Block. (At least, that's how it works in Finale.)
by at8ax
Sat Jul 05, 2014 6:46 pm
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: Finale 2014 - How to mute playback while entering notes?
Replies: 4
Views: 4009

Re: Finale 2014 - How to mute playback while entering notes?

You can't just turn off your speakers?
by at8ax
Sun Jun 15, 2014 2:41 pm
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: open recent doesn't work!!!
Replies: 10
Views: 6448

Re: open recent doesn't work!!!

Edit/Preferences/Open/Number of Recent Files in File Menu
by at8ax
Sat Jun 14, 2014 3:06 pm
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: open recent doesn't work!!!
Replies: 10
Views: 6448

Re: open recent doesn't work!!!

You haven't accidentally switched the Show Recent Files setting in Program Options to zero, right? Couldn't hurt to check.
by at8ax
Mon May 26, 2014 12:54 am
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: to hide the key signature?
Replies: 6
Views: 3545

Re: to hide the key signature?

This raises a question that I confess I don't know the answer to. How does the difference between Ab major and F minor manifest itself? Notes are notes, chords are chords, so neither of those. What changes by setting up one or the other? After 20 years, am I about to learn something that will accele...
by at8ax
Sun Apr 27, 2014 8:47 pm
Forum: Beginners
Topic: C6/9 chord
Replies: 2
Views: 3756

Re: C6/9 chord

Just guessing that Finale thinks the slash is indicating a bass note (though why it's changing 9 to C is a mystery). Do you have an option for the suffix that doesn't have a slash in it?
by at8ax
Sat Mar 29, 2014 4:01 pm
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: Burning Finale files to a CD
Replies: 6
Views: 4421

Re: Burning Finale files to a CD

I think the catch is that you're trying to play them in a CD player. They should play properly in WMP or somesuch, but I think CD players want .cda files.
by at8ax
Sun Oct 06, 2013 7:50 pm
Forum: Beginners
Topic: How to get through to Finale technical support.
Replies: 4
Views: 3650

Re: How to get through to Finale technical support.

CDT (or, more practically, CT all year 'round), not CST. The situation is already confusing enough!
by at8ax
Thu Sep 12, 2013 6:16 pm
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: Hotkeys for alt codes
Replies: 5
Views: 4516

Re: Hotkeys for alt codes

If you'd rather go the hardware route, I heartily endorse the Genovation 24-key Control Pad 683. Besides that, on a lark, I recently acquired Logitech's G110 keyboard, which also has dedicated programmable keys.
by at8ax
Sun Aug 18, 2013 6:34 pm
Forum: Beginners
Topic: Entering tacet bars in single orchestra parts
Replies: 3
Views: 3442

Re: Entering tacet bars in single orchestra parts

You might want to bookmark the online Visual Index. They used to send a hard-copy version of this, with everything labeled, but now you have to click on the thing you want to get a pop-up. http://www.finalemusic.com/usermanuals/ ... _Index.htm
by at8ax
Sat Aug 17, 2013 4:36 pm
Forum: Beginners
Topic: Entering tacet bars in single orchestra parts
Replies: 3
Views: 3442

Re: Entering tacet bars in single orchestra parts

Look for "multimeasure rests." It lives in the Measure tool.
by at8ax
Tue Jul 23, 2013 10:05 pm
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: Select non contiguous items
Replies: 6
Views: 3557

Re: Select non contiguous items

michelp wrote:But of course you'll need to remember the measure numbers in your piece.
It's a little low-tech, I know, but I use pencil and paper for that!
by at8ax
Sun Jul 21, 2013 3:36 pm
Forum: Hardware Issues
Topic: Problem with Accidentals between layers
Replies: 7
Views: 5927

Re: Problem with Accidentals between layers

In the circumstance you describe, you need to force Finale to show the natural on the layer-2 G. In Speedy, that's the asterisk * key, not the P (forced accidental in parentheses) key.
by at8ax
Thu Jul 11, 2013 3:05 pm
Forum: Beginners
Topic: Repeating the same note
Replies: 10
Views: 9208

Re: Repeating the same note

Gosh, Miker, don't you get it? It's because you tap the R key seven times after the note is entered instead of tapping the 4 key eight times. On a simultaneously more serious and more frivolous note, you could repeat the eighth note across a measure by entering it once, highlighing it, then using th...
by at8ax
Sat Jul 06, 2013 5:11 pm
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: What's the proper fermata placement here?
Replies: 4
Views: 3598

Re: What's the proper fermata placement here?

I'd put a fermata over each note. I'd also consider placing the two notes in a stack, with a fermata above and the tremolo below.
by at8ax
Sat Jul 06, 2013 5:09 pm
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: Correct Beaming in 3/4 (easy)
Replies: 3
Views: 2560

Re: Correct Beaming in 3/4 (easy)

Just for the record: Finale is beaming correctly in 3/4. Your music, as seen on the video, should have a 6/8 time signature.
by at8ax
Tue Apr 16, 2013 5:39 pm
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: Adding non-existing chord: Cm(+5)
Replies: 4
Views: 3097

Re: Adding non-existing chord: Cm(+5)

My (custom-made) chord suffix file includes m+5, with the +5 slightly elevated. I use it only to show an inner voice progression, so, for instance, Cm+5 would be the middle chord between Cm and Cm6.
by at8ax
Tue Mar 12, 2013 6:03 pm
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: Weird Chords
Replies: 5
Views: 3559

Re: Weird Chords

In my experience, while there might be good reasons, there are also lots of bad reasons. Like, having no idea how chord symbols are supposed to be expressed. I can think of numerous examples in the vocal selections versions of Sondheim and Kander & Ebb songs where the editor was clueless.
by at8ax
Fri Mar 08, 2013 4:03 pm
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: Weird Chords
Replies: 5
Views: 3559

Re: Weird Chords

Wouldn't C6sus4 just be F/C? [ducking]