Finale Forum

Yeah, they fixed the tiny display in later versions of Finale.

If you want to move the sharp and you're brave you can edit the shape with the arcane shape designer but it's not for the faint-hearted.

You can set Document Options / Fonts / Notation / Alternate Notation to a smaller point size. I'm not sure what else that would affect, thougj.

Better to post an example of the problem you're having than your entire piece. For the times where the entire piece is mysteriously broken, an offsite link seems fine. Posterity is not going to care about such a file.

I think small is fine.

After the tr articulation should be tr-flat, tr#, and tr-natural. There is also a tr# smart shape. Ctrl-click the custom line tool.

there are plenty of examples of downward trills in music from the 1950s onwards (and some from far earlier) I'm speaking of standard notation. "tr" means the note above, and if that not is not sharp, you can add a # to the right of or above the tr. Not necessary to indicate G#, even in modern music...

Once you've got that sorted out, I think you still need to go into the Speedy edit frame and check Tie Start for the other E.

I would just use the tr# articulation. A trill is only ever to the note above, so "G#" is not necessary.

For me, at least, the best way to visit the forum is by looking at View Unread Posts, which I get to by clicking Board Index and then clicking View Unread Posts. But if you then read a thread, the only way I've found to get back to View Unread Posts, is the two-step process of going to Board Index ...

Looks like you're right. Found an online discussion:

The "hot" icons are used when the topic has as many replies as the "Popular topic threshold:" on the Post Settings page.

I saw two-page topics without the scrolling icon, so it may or may not take two pages to be popular, but the converse isn't true. Anyway, es macht nichts.

On the right, the tiny page next to the last poster's name.
Apparently the scrolling icon means "popular", not multiple pages. I don't know what the precise definition of popular is, though.

Thanks, Mike! I didn't know about the Advanced tab. Curiously, "baseline shift" and "baseline" were not helpful in Word's help search.

Are the meanings of the little topic icons documented somewhere? What does the star mean? Occasionally there is an animated gif that emululates scrolling. I though perhaps that meant someone was writing a response, but that doesn't seem to be the case (see the "Who's here?").

I wonder if it would work to keep a copy of a "good" finale.ini file (or Mac equivalent) and copy this back in such situations rather than deleting.

The "Preferences" file in reality seems to be all manner of other things that Finale remembers in addition to what preferences have been set. It would be nice if they separated the two so the user doesn't have to suffer recreating their preferences when one of the myriad Finale bugs rears its head.

I couldn't find a way to shift the baseline in Word.

Why does the flat in the Bach font lie so low?
Maestro Times doesn't have this problem, but I don't like the looks of its flat symbol much.

You can define a group for just the repeat bar (upper-right corner of Group Attributes bar). Select the measure stack of that measure and then choose Group/Add through the menu.

Is there a way to ignore a topic so that it doesn't show up in "View unread posts"? Say I'm not interested in "Why don't the Mac scrollbars work?" for example. An "ignore from now on" button?

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You certainly had a right to expect that. But it also says When you drag or nudge the top staff of any system other than the first, Finale adjusts the distance between systems. It seems like with Alt it could move only the top staff and grow the system until it bumped into the one above, but alas it...

That's the way it works--there's nothing wrong with your system.

I wonder if Nick is trying to move the top staff. It appears that moving the top staff handle moves the system, Alt or not.

Create a new document with three empty staves and see if it happens there.

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