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Interesting problem! Personally I would prefer one of these: Beam stubs alt.JPG because both are clearer in that the beaming doesn't combine divisions by 16ths and 32nds. (The time signature is 4/8, so no problem with the broken beam between the first and second eighth.) My favourite is perhaps B be...

The JW plug-in is just brilliant, and probably motet's advice is the best one for you in the situation you describe, Capricorn. It works for sixteenth, eighth, and quarter triplets. Would you need a lot of other kinds of tuplets, you could program a metatool for that. Here's from the manual: Tuplet ...

Settings tried so far: ... Right click > unlink in all parts Smart shape menu > Slur contour > reset Smart shape menu > Smart slur options > reset (nothing else really applies) (Personally, I would rather use relink in all parts to have the same look in score and part.) The culprit is found in the ...

motet wrote: ↑

Thu Aug 31, 2023 6:21 pm

I think the complaint is the eighth notes become quarter notes, which is bizarre. But yes, the original rests are not good.

Changing from incorrect eighth rests to correct quarter rest wouldn't be bizarre or unforgivable, would it?

If I understand you, you want to keep the rests as in the second staff of your first example? I think the rests in the first staff is more correct.

There seems to be disagreement about that very question. According to Wikipedia: The names contrabass and double bass refer to the instrument's range and use one octave lower than the cello (i.e. doubling on cello). Quoting an old forum post from ten years ago, posted by forum user Epilogue: … When...

This is the way I do it: In Speedy Entry, insert the trill note with a lesser value to allow for the nachschlag notes as 16ths. Change the 16ths to grace notes with ; and then give the trill note its proper value. Finale has no problem placing the notes correctly.

Are the cautionary accidentals only affected by this loss? If not, it couldn't be a font issue.

What I could think of is that it has to do with staff systems reduction and a page-attached text block. In the following example the staff systems are reduced to 85% (Page Layout menu). The Finale lyrics automatically are reduced with the same amount. When copied into a measure-attached text block t...

And deselect Automatic Music Spacing in Preferences.

One way of creating what is seen in your example is using a Shape Expression for the staff lines and a Text Expression for the clef, and working a little with sizes to have them match.

Thanks N Grossingink! I agree completely. For some reason the second part of your example seems even worse than my B. Maybe it's because it's mixing apples with pears (Swedish expression, sorry). Sixteenths and eights both are "flag notes", and quarters are not. And, if extended beams are important,...

I had a discussion with a client who asked for the traditional sixteenth rests in A to be combined into eighth rests as in B: Combined rests 1.JPG Now, what he actually requested was the above B with extended beams, wich certainly makes the rhythm clearer than without: Combined rests 2.JPG In my eye...

Ok, John, I might have put it too strongly. "Useless for publishing" probably would be more to the point. I do hope I belong in the 'more discerning' category, BTW, having the job I have.

We had a discussion in another thread about exporting and reimporting graphics in Finale. Using (any format in) Finale's Graphics tool the images are distorted when reimported because vector graphics for some obscure MM reason are changed into bitmapped ones. Resulting in blurry and totally useless ...

What if Finale et al offered a choice between 'general mode' (meaning average user's mode) and 'special mode' (or 'pro mode')? I'm nothing like a programmer, but I wouldn't think this is unfeasible if you want to reach both customer categories. What would the difference be? Pros and amateurs should...

What if Finale et al offered a choice between 'general mode' (meaning average user's mode) and 'special mode' (or 'pro mode')? I'm nothing like a programmer, but I wouldn't think this is unfeasible if you want to reach both customer categories.

I tried that once, long time ago. Later, when I decided to revisit the work and revise it, everything became double work. That's why chose not to go that way from then on. You are quite right of course, htoker. Probably the double scores is a safer method when engraving music by others. Admittedly ...

My approach for Flute 1 and Flute 2 (say) is to write separate staves for each part... This is much more straight-forward and less time-consuming in the end than starting with a single staff and then trying to tease it apart, which as you're finding can be problematic. FWIW some of us, when ready w...

What happens if you press B in Speedy for beaming flagged notes? It's not how it should be obviously, but since tou are on deadline...

bj nick wrote: ↑

Sun Oct 09, 2022 4:40 pm

... anything ahead of where I'm working will start to "scrunch up"-- e.g. all the notes bunch up.

Just a thought: In Preferences, do you have Reflow Measures Across Systems, and Across Pages selected?

I have the same issue. And when checking the folders in Preferences it looks like they are the right ones. In the corresponding Plugins folder in the Program files everything is in English, but when I open the Plugins menu in the program a number of items are in Swedish. Not bad Swedish, but inconve...

Could you give an example of what you are trying to do? Discussing theoretical issues which have no support in known theory easily becomes too theoretical.

dtoub wrote: ↑

Fri Sep 02, 2022 5:37 pm

I could just as easily say in the same vein that the solution is for people to just not use Finale but to go back to writing on score paper (something I probably haven’t done since the early 90’s).

Well you can't get everything with anything.

It seems like we talk at cross purposes.

"Why can't Finale" - I think, MM being what it is at present, that's a philosophical question.