Staff settings and barlines

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Raybird
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Post by Raybird » Thu May 02, 2019 2:42 pm

Finale 25.5.0.259 OSX 10.14.4

Greetings — I have encountered a problem in staff settings.

I have a piano piece set out on 2 or 3 staves, including some multiple time-signatures which required barlines drawn through only 2 of the 3 staves.

In spite of trying options in the staff tool (groups & brackets, staff attributes), I am now unable to use 3 staves with barlines drawn through all three staves.

Any suggestions gratefully received.


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Peter Thomsen
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Post by Peter Thomsen » Thu May 02, 2019 4:31 pm

I am sure you understand, how difficult it can be to diagnose something blindly with nothing to look at.

Please attach a (small) sample Finale document here.
You can safely delete all notes from the sample document; we only need to examine the barlines.
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Post by Raybird » Fri May 03, 2019 5:47 am

Here is a short relevant extract, Peter :

Bars 1-8 need barlines drawn through the 3 staves.

Bars 17-24 correctly show barlines only through the two lower staves.

Many thanks.

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Post by Peter Thomsen » Fri May 03, 2019 11:19 am

Raybird,

Take a look at the attached Finale document.

Is this what you need?

The culprit was a setting in the Staff Attributes for the middle staff:
Break Barlines Between Staves

For the first 8 measures in the middle staff I added a custom staff style that does only one thing:
de-select {Break Barlines Between Staves}
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Post by Raybird » Fri May 03, 2019 12:52 pm

Many thanks, Peter; exactly what I needed.

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