Editorial accidentals

[cefuhrmann]

Hello -

I am trying to place editorial accidentals in a score, i.e. accidentals in brackets, but am not having luck finding these. I can see how to add cautionary accidentals in parentheses, but not editorial accidentals in brackets.

Is there a way to do this?

Thanks!
Chris

[Peter Thomsen]

There are no bracketed accidentals in the music fonts you get with Finale.
But there are bracketed accidentals in the Fughetta font.
URL to the Fughetta font:
http://www.efn.org/~bch/aboutfonts.html

You may not like the bracketed accidentals in the Fughetta font, but you can also create the bracketed accidentals yourself - as shapes, created in Finale's Shape Designer.
In the Shape Designer you have a drawing environment that allows you to combine font characters and drawing elements.
If you have used a drawing program before, you will soon understand the Shape Designer.

You can use the {bracketed accidentals} shapes as shape expressions or as shape articulations.