Text size and fonts..make your own default?
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- miker
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You can set up whatever you want in your default documents. Or, you could set up a new category in expressions, and use that for all of your text inserts. Again, that would have to be in your default docs.
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- Djard
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Here are the details if you need them:
1. Document (upper text menu) -> Document Options -> Fonts.
2. From "Text" drop-down menu in right pane, select "Text Block."
3. From "Set Font" drop down menu, select font, typeface and size as desired. For example, Times New Roman, Regular, 12 pt.
4. OK -> Apply -> OK.
5. Double-click where you wish to insert text.
6. Click once in blank area to clear highlighting.
7. Drag handle of text to desired location. Use arrow keys for precision.
1. Document (upper text menu) -> Document Options -> Fonts.
2. From "Text" drop-down menu in right pane, select "Text Block."
3. From "Set Font" drop down menu, select font, typeface and size as desired. For example, Times New Roman, Regular, 12 pt.
4. OK -> Apply -> OK.
5. Double-click where you wish to insert text.
6. Click once in blank area to clear highlighting.
7. Drag handle of text to desired location. Use arrow keys for precision.
- Canned Man
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Hello, everyone!
(Thus my official greeting and first post on this forum.)
I thought it better that I ask my question in this related post, rather than create a new one; I hope that is alright.
I love good typography; I am the kind who reads Robert Bringhurst whilst enjoying breakfast. (Yes, I actually do that.) I have as of yet not found any way of setting OpenType features in Finale. How can I do this? Also, when setting the different default fonts (as advised in this thread), which parts of the document get the Text style? Is that for all text that is not lyrics, notation and chords?
As a comment, it might be worth mentioning that when I set my default fonts in e.g. LibreOffice, I define both ligatures and number style, all in one go, e.g. for common ligatures, contextual alternatives and text figures with proportional width.
(Thus my official greeting and first post on this forum.)
I thought it better that I ask my question in this related post, rather than create a new one; I hope that is alright.
I love good typography; I am the kind who reads Robert Bringhurst whilst enjoying breakfast. (Yes, I actually do that.) I have as of yet not found any way of setting OpenType features in Finale. How can I do this? Also, when setting the different default fonts (as advised in this thread), which parts of the document get the Text style? Is that for all text that is not lyrics, notation and chords?
As a comment, it might be worth mentioning that when I set my default fonts in e.g. LibreOffice, I define both ligatures and number style, all in one go, e.g.
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EB Garamond:liga&calt&onum&pnum
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- John Ruggero
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Finale can't even do perfect justification and requires special keystrokes for curly quotes, so I doubt it can do anything more subtle. Maybe I am wrong. In any case, if the text becomes at all complex, I take the project into InDesign or Affinity Publisher.
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- Canned Man
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That is a not unexpected reply. It is sad that a programme costing this much doesn’t even support basic OpenType features. Thanks for the reply!
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