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You are talking about chord symbols (not written out chords) - right?

To enter e. g. the chord symbol F#m, type E##m.
Then the Chord Tool will change E##m to F#m.

To enter C#m, type B##m.

Geddit ?

… Now, when I do this, it looks fine on the part but when I print to pdf, creating a pdf, it goes absolutely crazy. Spacing is all off on the pdf, small barlines everywhere, etc. … My first guess: Document menu > Document Options > Multimeasure Rests Is the option Update Automatically selected or d...

If I understand you correctly, in the score only the C instrument should display, but you need two linked parts, one in C, and one in Bb - right? You can indeed create different linked parts (with different transposition or clef) from the same score staff. The “secret” is that staff styles can be di...

jose oscar,

In your document you have measure numbers displaying both at the beginning of each system and also on every measure.

Here is another positioning of the measure numbers (= on bottom staff; above the bottom staff at the beginning of each system, and below each barline of the bottom staff):

Right, but when I save the part, the resulting file is not the part, it is the entire score … Yes, the Finale document is both the score and all the individual parts - all in one document. This fact is a time saver. You just open one document, and there you have it all. To work on an individual par...

OK - can you explain how to do it? The extracted parts are created from the linked parts. Which means that you can not avoid generating linked parts: Document menu > Manage Parts… Today the “standard procedure” is to use linked parts - and very seldom extracted parts. If I understand you correctly,...

The extracted parts are created from the linked parts.

Which means that you can not avoid generating linked parts:
Document menu > Manage Parts…

Today the “standard procedure” is to use linked parts - and very seldom extracted parts.

earcentred wrote: ↑

Wed Jan 31, 2024 10:48 pm

… I noticed yet another parameter was different in your file: The Linear Key Format was set to 2 …

The first two Linear Key Formats (= 0 and 1) are “hardwired”.

But the Linear Key Formats 2 and higher are fully customizable.

earcentred,

Take a look at the attached Finale document.
Is this what you need ?

For Clef 4 I changed Unit -1’s octave placement to -2.

Explanation:
Unit -1 means the first flat
Octave -2 is two octaves below Octave 0.

earcentred, If I understand you correctly, you need a key signature of 2 flats (= B♭ and E♭) - right? But you need the second flat (= E♭) moved an octave down - right? Take a look at the attached Finale document. KeySignature.musx Is this what you need ? By The Way: I can see that you are using v27....

… If there was a way to change the length of the secondary beams in method 2, that would probably be the way to go … Actually it is a document setting: Document Options - Beams In the lower pane there is a field where you can set the broken beam length. However, this setting affects all broken beam...

There is a way to do it, but it is rather time consuming: 1) Enter the repeated notes as they would sound i. e. repeated 16th's in Layer 1. Then, hide the second of each repeated note. 2) Do exactly the same thing in Layer 2. 3) Flip the stem directions in the layers so that the aligned note's stem ...

My instrument list on the attached shows that it includes three string parts (2 vns, vla) … I can see four string parts (2 vns, vl, cello). I can also see them in Scroll View. … Using the Staff tool, how do I reveal them on the score? … Staff Tool. Select All. Staff menu > Show Empty Staves This st...

1) Take a look in
Preferences - Edit
In the pane Automatic Settings, is the setting
Automatic Music Spacing
selected or de-selected?
(NB: this is program specific)

2) Document Options - Multimeasure Rests
Is the option
Update Automatically
selected or de-selected?
(NB: this is document specific)

Another solution:

Place the lyrics above the Grand Staff.

1) If you - before opening the plug-in - (drag-)select the partial measure (like e. g. only the last eighth), then the plug-in will put the correct number in there for you. 2) Whether you choose the dash barline or the invisible barline, does not really matter. Afterwards you will change that barlin...

Enter measure 57 like this: SplitMeasure-1.jpg Then, run the Split Measure plug-in (Plug-ins menu > Measures > Split Measure…) to get this: SplitMeasure-2.jpg Now measure 57 is two measures, of 5/8 and 1/8. Let us call them 57a and 57b. Measure Tool. Double-click measure 57a, and change the measure’...

… I open split measure and put the number 2 in there. If I understand you correctly, you have this: SplitMeasure-A.jpg - and you need to get to this: SplitMeasure-B.jpg - right? (Click on the attached graphics, to view them at full size) 1) My first guess is that you should put the number 1 in ther...

… In measure 58 there should only be 1 note. No rest. the timing is 6/8. And in measure 57 there should only be the notes. No 8th rest - right? So that measure 57 and measure 58 together add up to a complete 6/8 measure - right? Which means that measure 57 and measure 58 originally were one 6/8 mea...

Which of those settings controls this, Peter? … I was referring to the settings in the red rectangle in my screen shot. … I just finished 40 pages of secco recitative on a grand staff with the voice on top and figured bass on the bottom, with barlines between the staves. I used the default document...

Have you tried these settings?

The 6 “quarters” are actually sextuplet sixteenths, filling the last beat of a (slow) 4/4 measure (= the last beat of the half note in the Bass). My guess is that the 6 “quarters” notation indicates a calm, in free tempo, arpeggio effect (a “pyramid” chord). “Pyramid” chords are not uncommon in orga...

… The staff style for standard notation would look something like this, but I couldn't get it to display the key signature. Maybe someone else will know. Peter Thompsen? … I could be wrong, but it seems to me that the Instrument List (and not a staff style) is responsible for the changes between th...

finalizer,

There are two sets of Finale folder hierarchies, with the same folder names.

One resides in the Library folder at System Level (root level), the other resides in your user account.

Yes, I know.
It can be confusing that you can find similarly named folders in two different places.

I honestly do not recall, what features were available in Finale 2003. The Plug-ins menu should have an icon to the right of the Tools menu. Regarding the Finale plug-ins I can only suggest that you pull down the Plug-ins menu, and explore the menu and its sub-menus. Among the Finale plug-ins there ...