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by elbsound
Sat Jan 29, 2022 9:52 am
Forum: Beginners
Topic: Making Hairpins Behave Like Music Notation
Replies: 5
Views: 1845

Re: Making Hairpins Behave Like Music Notation

Here is a demo of how Perfect Layout corrects your dynamic and hairpin placement in Finale: https://elbsound.studio/perfect-layout/interactive-demo.php If you click on this link you can also control it, zoom in, download the PDF, etc. Or look at this GIF of before/after Perfect Layout: https://elbso...
by elbsound
Wed Dec 01, 2021 1:43 pm
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: Lua scripts not working
Replies: 12
Views: 2313

Re: Lua scripts not working

The "Scilexer not found" is a known issue (see https://www.facebook.com/groups/742277119576336/posts/960218364448876/ ) and AFAIK there has not been a solution. A few users have had it and in most (or even all?) cases it worked again at some time. BTW, one week ago Robert Patterson has released a ne...
by elbsound
Mon Nov 29, 2021 8:11 am
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: Using Perfect Layout for first time
Replies: 22
Views: 4349

Re: Using Perfect Layout for first time

bj nick, I have received your forwarded email now and I have sent you the reply.
by elbsound
Sat Nov 27, 2021 8:09 pm
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: Using Perfect Layout for first time
Replies: 22
Views: 4349

Re: Using Perfect Layout for first time

Hi BJ, no, it still didn't arrive. Maybe you need to deactivate your anti-virus software to send it? I don't know what can cause this. The email addresses do work and I get files every day, so it must be something else. What format is your attached file? I assume it is .musx. Don't use .zip or .exe....
by elbsound
Fri Nov 19, 2021 8:09 am
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: Using Perfect Layout for first time
Replies: 22
Views: 4349

Re: Using Perfect Layout for first time

Yes, on the contact page you can't attach files. Use the email address from the contact page instead.
The other email address that you mention also works fine. But I didn't receive anything there either.
by elbsound
Thu Nov 18, 2021 5:34 pm
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: Using Perfect Layout for first time
Replies: 22
Views: 4349

Re: Using Perfect Layout for first time

Hi bj nick, I assume you are the user that has sent me an email with only the name BJ on November 6th (with the "d..." email address). I replied to that email on the same day. Maybe it landed in your spam folder? I also answered an email to you (or to a BJ) on the 6th of October. Unfortunately I hav...
by elbsound
Sat Nov 06, 2021 4:10 pm
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: Using Perfect Layout for first time
Replies: 22
Views: 4349

Re: Using Perfect Layout for first time (ugh)

If it really says "Have you set music spacing?", that could perhaps be more precisely worded. No, it doesn't say that. It says: Title of the message: Warning: 'Automatic Music Spacing' off? Content: Have you checked that 'Edit->Preferences->Edit->Automatic Music Spacing' is switched off? This optio...
by elbsound
Sat Nov 06, 2021 1:49 pm
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: Using Perfect Layout for first time
Replies: 22
Views: 4349

Re: Using Perfect Layout for first time (ugh)

Thanks for your comments on Perfect Layout! This is Jan from Elbsound.studio, the developer and owner of Elbsound.studio. Perfect Layout offers many features for both beginner and very advanced Finale users. But it's difficult to make it easy for everyone. Why? Because notation is complex and Finale...
by elbsound
Sun Aug 15, 2021 4:46 pm
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: Perfect Layout sale
Replies: 11
Views: 2006

Re: Perfect Layout sale

it would really help if you used a completely different word for incremental updates within a single number and upgrades to a different version number. These are BOTH called updates. Any version number change is an update. Updates never require a new license key. There are free updates within one m...
by elbsound
Sun Aug 15, 2021 4:11 pm
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: Perfect Layout sale
Replies: 11
Views: 2006

Re: Perfect Layout sale

Hi Michel, I suspect that someone at Elbsounds went and did it manually behind the scenes because within a few minutes, it was finally working. As I wrote in our conversation on the Elbsound forum I have reset your account, because you said you uninstalled the plug-in, but for some reason it was not...
by elbsound
Mon Aug 09, 2021 4:32 pm
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: Position of accidental
Replies: 12
Views: 2803

Re: Position of accidental

I have looked a bit further into this Finale issue. It seems to be the "octave rule". Accidentals on octaves placed at the same horizontal position might be easier to read. But obviously not in David's case where they have different accidentals. Anyway, this is what Finale produces by default: only ...
by elbsound
Sun Aug 08, 2021 11:31 am
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: Fat noteheads!
Replies: 5
Views: 1461

Re: Fat noteheads!

Have a look at my Music Font Comparison created with Finale.
Maybe you find will a better notehead there?
https://elbsound.studio/music-font-comparison.php
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by elbsound
Sun Aug 08, 2021 9:16 am
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: Position of accidental
Replies: 12
Views: 2803

Re: Position of accidental

The Perfect Layout plug-in for Finale doesn't solve this issue yet. It only improves the horizontal accidental placement if the chord includes seconds -as described in the thread that Michel mentions. Perfect Layout's accidental correction is described here: https://elbsound.studio/perfect-layout/al...
by elbsound
Mon Jul 05, 2021 11:23 am
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: Is this common accidental placement?
Replies: 27
Views: 5722

Re: Is this common accidental placement?

Took about 2-3 hours to implement this as it was just an addition to the already existing accidental manipulation function.
Then it's running through the automated release tests which take about 5 minutes to check manually and that's it.
by elbsound
Fri Jul 02, 2021 10:13 pm
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: Is this common accidental placement?
Replies: 27
Views: 5722

Re: Is this common accidental placement?

I have now implemented an automatic solution for this in the upcoming update v2.42 of my Perfect Layout plug-in for Finale. Here are the results of the prototype: https://elbsound.studio/assets/img/ES/AccidentalPlacementOnSeconds.gif BTW, Perfect Layout already has a many other horizontal improvemen...
by elbsound
Tue Jun 15, 2021 8:32 am
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: Perfect Layout Plug-in: Interactive Dynamics/Hairpin Alignment Demo
Replies: 0
Views: 3447

Perfect Layout Plug-in: Interactive Dynamics/Hairpin Alignment Demo

I have added an interactive page that gives an overview of the dynamics/hairpin alignment features of my Perfect Layout plug-in for Finale. Below is a preview. On the webpage you can switch the pages, drag the image, zoom in/out and download the PDF and .musx files: Interactive Overview: https://elb...
by elbsound
Tue May 18, 2021 3:11 pm
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: What's the deal with the caret in lyric entry?
Replies: 18
Views: 3709

Re: What's the deal with the caret in lyric entry?

I would second Dan's comment: â ê etc are predefined symbols, while MusGlyphs creates a new symbol from two glyphs. It is very likely that it has to do with the special treatment of the ^. And as ^ is no standard lyrics character the lyrics developer might not have thought of this special situation....
by elbsound
Mon May 17, 2021 4:01 pm
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: What's the deal with the caret in lyric entry?
Replies: 18
Views: 3709

Re: What's the deal with the caret in lyric entry?

The caret symbol (^) is a "magic" symbol in Finale's text handling system. Finale starts all font name, font size or font style changes internally with a caret symbol, so it might be confused here. If you use JW Lua, you can examine this. You typically get something like this for a short text in Tim...
by elbsound
Mon May 10, 2021 1:35 pm
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: cresc. < dim. > on one note
Replies: 10
Views: 2331

Re: cresc. < dim. > on one note

As Bill writes, this symbol is included in many fonts, see the list on my "Catalog of Music Symbols" page here:
https://elbsound.studio/catalog-of-musi ... essadivoce

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by elbsound
Thu Apr 15, 2021 9:07 am
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: Gap in first ending bracket
Replies: 3
Views: 911

Re: Gap in first ending bracket

If you use my "Perfect Layout" plug-in, open gaps on first ending brackets will be automatically closed.
See pages 29 (Before)/30 (After) in the PDF Example Collection from https://elbsound.studio/perfect-layout/examples.php
by elbsound
Wed Nov 04, 2020 3:06 pm
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: My favorite add ons
Replies: 7
Views: 2073

Re: My favorite add ons

I find its default spacing a bit too loose. I would like a somewhat tighter spacing. Michel R E, have you tried to adjust the "Extra Vertical Collision Offset" value? (Alignment->Extra Vertical Collision Offset) With this one value you can easily loosen or tighten the overall (vertical) spacing of ...
by elbsound
Thu Jul 30, 2020 3:38 pm
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: Finale 26 seems OK in macOS 11.0 Big Sur
Replies: 3
Views: 3054

Re: Finale 26 seems OK in macOS 11.0 Big Sur

That's good news!
How about 3rd party plug-ins? Do they also work?
In another thread there were concerns about them not working:
viewtopic.php?f=5&t=19087
by elbsound
Wed Jun 10, 2020 7:33 am
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: Perfect Layout v1 - The ultimate plug-in for Finale released
Replies: 83
Views: 27991

Re: Perfect Layout v1 - The ultimate plug-in for Finale released

Hi David, are you sure that you have mailed to us (Elbsound.studio - The makers of Perfect Layout)? We haven't found a mail asking about turning of auto-stacking globally. Under which name did you send us an email? But I can tell you that turning off auto-stacking globally is not possible with the c...
by elbsound
Fri Jun 05, 2020 7:36 pm
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: paranthesis around a group of notes
Replies: 4
Views: 1988

Re: paranthesis around a group of notes

If you need huge brackets in Finale for example on note clusters or that span two staves, it's more difficult as most fonts are too bold if increased in size.
Here are some special font suggestions for articulations: https://elbsound.studio/large-brackets-in-finale.php
by elbsound
Sun Mar 29, 2020 2:35 pm
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: Perfect Layout v1.7 released
Replies: 3
Views: 1987

Re: Perfect Layout v1.7 released

Could it be that you are mixing up the license key and the activation key?
The download page requires the license key (included in your purchase confirmation email).