Multimeasure Rests numbering on Single measures

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BugleMe
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Post by BugleMe » Wed May 13, 2020 2:00 pm

Hello,
I am running Finale 2014.5 on a Mac using OS High Sierra 10.13.6
I’d like to have Finale display a multimeasure rest on a single measure, but when I do it, it looks silly as seen in the screen shot that accompanies this post. Is there any way to turn off the double measure number indication for just the single multimeasure rest (i.e. 34) and not have it read (i.e. 34-34) and keep the others the same? I hope this is clear enough discription for what I’m trying to achive.

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Post by Peter Thomsen » Wed May 13, 2020 2:39 pm

Measure Tool.
Drag-select across the “double measure number indication”, to select the measure number handle.
Measure menu > Hide Measure Numbers
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Post by N Grossingink » Wed May 13, 2020 3:15 pm

I wouldn't use the multimeasure bar for the single measure rest. You can edit the MM rest to show as a symbol, which is the usual whole rest (Right Click > Multimeasure Rest > Edit). This seems to be standard.
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Post by Bill Stevens » Wed May 13, 2020 3:43 pm

Unless I'm mistaken, those number range settings are for Measure Number Regions. You could have a region of everything before, one for the measure, and one for everything after. If that works, it would be worth the trouble for a few occurrences, but if it happens many times it would be quite a hassle.

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Post by motet » Wed May 13, 2020 6:17 pm

Easier to just hide it, I think.

What N posted is indeed common, but it doesn't solve the measure range issue, which I agree looks rather silly. I think an option to omit it in that situation would be a good feature request.

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Post by BugleMe » Mon May 25, 2020 1:25 pm

Thank you all for your replies! I think it must have been an oversight of the Finale programmers to have this issue on a single measure. Apparently the best work around is to just hide those offending measure counts. Probably easiest to just set the number at 2 for "Start numbers at" in preferences, then this problem goes away.

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Post by Peter Thomsen » Mon May 25, 2020 5:58 pm

BugleMe wrote:
Mon May 25, 2020 1:25 pm
… I think it must have been an oversight of the Finale programmers to have this issue on a single measure. Apparently the best work around is to just hide those offending measure counts. Probably easiest to just set the number at 2 for "Start numbers at" in preferences, then this problem goes away …
1) By your words “those offending measure counts” you probably mean “those offending measure ranges” - right?

2) It is not in Preferences (The Preferences are program specific), but rather in Document Options - Multimeasure rests (the Document Options are document specific).

3) {Start Number At 2 Measures} indeed solves the problem with display of Measure Range on a Multimeasure Rest of only one measure. But you also do not get the number ‘1’ above.
However, you can add the number ‘1’ with the Expression Tool.

4) Do not forget N Grossingink’s suggestion of, not using the multimeasure bar for a single measure rest.
This can be done in {Document Options - Multimeasure Rests} by - in the pane Symbols - setting
Use Symbols for Rests Less Than 2 Measures.
From now on, all new multimeasure rests of a single measure will display the whole measure rest symbol instead of the multimeasure bar.
To update already existing multimeasure rests of a single measure, generate the multimeasure rests again.

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