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Mon Apr 08, 2024 6:52 pm

… Simple entry gave me trouble, as you can see (m. 3) …

To end a measure with a tuplet, de-select the Simple Entry option
Check for Extra Notes

Unfortunately your attached graphic has a very low resolution - it is barely readable (at least for me, using the Opera browser).

If you could attach it again - with a higher resolution - then I am confident that we can help you much better.

… I'm looking for a way to force Finale to break beams according to the key signature … You probably mean “according to the time signature”. Unfortunately the time signature only breaks through all beams (primary beams, secondary beams, …). I do not know of a plug-in that can, intelligently, break ...

At the bottom of your post you tell that you are using Finale v27. But your Forum User Profile (shown to the right of your post) tells that you are still using v26. Perhaps it is time to update your profile. … The issues is with a double-dotted eighth followed by two 32nds … You probably mean “follo...

You could add the articulations to the template you use for creating new documents.

In that way you will automatically have the articulations in all new documents.

I've checked the page>format>score but nowhere is there a function to set all pages in that format. I've been through that menu a hundred times and thought I was double-checking the landscape format, but it only affects the first two pages and the first four systems of the score. I've had to do it ...

… On any beat other than the last beat of the measure … You are talking about the Simple Entry Tool - right? Actually you can end a measure with a tuplet. There are several ways to enter a tuplet - and to end a measure with a tuplet. The way you describe, will work, too, if you de-select a specific...

NB:
The default formatting is document specific, not program specific.
It is possible to have different default formatting in different documents.
This is by design, and what users have requested.
To get the desired formatting in all new documents, use a custom template.

1) There is a free maintenance update to Finale v27.4.1.146.

2) It is not clear to me what you mean?

Take a look at the attached graphics.

A or B?

… I’ve been a Finale user for thirty years and this problem has vexed me for all of those years. The first couple of pages appear in landscape mode and the rest in portrait mode in a different sized font … A wild guess: The {landscape} layout on the “first couple of pages” was customized manually, ...

Do you know Jari Williamson’s plug-in JW Meter and Rhythm ?

… more specific ~ Tuplet of eight underneath a contrapunkt of 16 tuplets in same system/akkolade Could you be even more specific? - what sort of tuplets? - quintuplets? - sextuplets? - septuplets? - Do the two tuplets begin on the same note? Creating a compound tuplet is easy with the Speedy Entry ...

Hi Burt, 1) In the video you filled the blank measures with Real Whole Rests. When you used Speedy Entry to reflow, you had selected the option {Check for Extra Notes}, causing the dialog box There Are Too Many Beats in This Measure to appear. Then, when you selected the option {Keep moving the extr...

Burt, The hyperlink in your latest post is a link to a graphic, not to a video - right? If I understand you correctly, the Finale document that gives you trouble, was created in Finale 2010 - right? Indeed you can get trouble when opening old Finale documents in a newer Finale version. However, in t...

BurtGoldstein, I have watched your latest video. This is an easy one. I almost dare not say the following - please don’t smack me. ;-) You forgot to change the 3/4 measure to a 3/2 measure (which you did in your first video). What you see, is that the 3/4 measure now contains to many note values (wo...

BurtGoldstein, I took a look at the video in your first post. What comes to mind: 1) Before you try to double the 3/4 measure, the document is already quite complicated, with tuplets and many different note values. It may very well be possible that somewhere a measure does not contain the correct nu...

1) In staff 2 you have not entered the Layer 2 notes. Before using the Note Mover Tool, complete Layer 2, to make the Layer 1 notes flip the stems upwards. 2) These steps work for me: Switch to Layer 1, Click the Note Mover Tool, Click in staff 2, in the first measure (handles appear on the Layer 1 ...

… I don't get moving note of second layer staff 1 into staff 2. But I have no a clear idea of the layers used in the image, really … I think the layout is easier to create “the other way around”: Enter the first 16ths in Staff 2, Layer 1. Then, move the first 16th into Staff 1. * See the attached F...

According to your Forum User Profile you are still using Mac Finale v2014 (shown to the right of your post).

Perhaps it is time to update your Profile.

Take a look at the attached Finale document.

I had no trouble flipping the C note’s stem down.

With the Layer 2 C note selected in Simple Entry I used the command
Simple menu > Simple Edit Commands > Modify Entry > Flip Stem
(keyboard shortcut: hit the letter L key)

… When I Utilities/ Rebeam/Rebeam to time signature the display changes from 6/8 in dot quarter + dot quarter into 6/8 in 6 eight notes … My first guess would be that you are rebeaming to a 6/8 time signature of: Number of Beats: 6 Beat Duration: Eighth Instead, try rebeaming to a 6/8 time signatur...

Welcome to the forum!

Attach your Finale document here, and I am confident the gurus can find out what is going on in your document.

Welcome to the forum! Page Layout Tool. Page Layout menu > Avoid Margin Collisions (de-select) When the option {Avoid Margin Collisions} is de-selected, Finale allows negative values in the System Margins. Which means that you can freely position any system anywhere. If you have questions about this...

… I tried a new staff style, I was on that first screen you posted same thing (same settings) but it does not work, it does not show rhythmic noteheads on any layer … As you can see, it does work in the Finale document I attached (which has Rhythmic Notation in Layer 1, not in Layer 2). * If you at...

I looked in my archive of Finale solutions, and found these files (rhythmic notation above staff).

But perhaps this solution is only what you are doing already (= having to manually tweak tons of little options on tabs and menus) ?