Finale Forum

This would, of course, be a nice feature for Finale to have, since it's not that uncommon, rather than resorting to such tsuris.

motet wrote:This would, of course, be a nice feature for Finale to have, since it's not that uncommon, rather than resorting to such tsuris.

In Dorico, it's as simple as typing a short string of text.

To be sure, Finale will never have the elegance and advanced features that Dorico has built in. However, for down-and-dirty ease of production, Finale will probably remain the choice, at least among many music publishers.

N.

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If you type in 6/8 in Dorico, does it always beam 3+3?

motet wrote:If you type in 6/8 in Dorico, does it always beam 3+3?

Yes, that's the default. I'm not sure how you'd get unbeamed flagged eighths. There may be a way, but this may be one of the many things that Dorico can't do at this time without a painful workaround. It may be a lyric option setting since this would generally be a lyrics only kind of thing.

N.

Or 5/8 can be beamed 3+2 or 2+3. I guess I'm saying you can't praise its simplicity if it only does the simple thing. If it does the common thing which you can change, though, great.

If you type [2+3]/8 you will get 5/8 with grouping of 2+3. [3+2]/8 the other way around.
[4+2]/8 will result in 6/8 with 4+2 grouping, but [2+2+2]/8 will not give 6/8 with groups of 2, and [1+1+1+1+1+1]/8 will not give 6/8 with unbeamed 8-notes. Go figure.