Manually spaced multi-measure rests won't stay put
Posted: Mon Aug 30, 2021 8:16 pm
In this piece, for solo viola, 2 vns, cello, and piano, one movement is solo viola with the other instruments tacet. For the tacet instrument parts, I have the movement divided into two multi-measure rests--which I am happy enough with, because I don't want to deal with renumbering all the measures, as I would if I follow earlier advice on how to make a single-measure rest for a tacet movement.
The first of those multi-measure rests is 3 measures and the second is 30, but they show up in Finale as equal widths. I would like to have them proportional in the parts--as in the attached jpg file--and in order to do that, I thought it would be as easy as dragging the barline at the end of the first MM rest to the left. The trouble is, the moment I press "print", whether to create a PDF or to literally print it, the barline that I have moved manually bounces back to being right in the middle of the line.
I have attached the relevant part of the score, but because of formatting stuff I had to do, it will look like a mess to you (and to me). But you can see the multi-measure rests in the violin 1, violin 2, and violin 3 parts, in spite of that.
I thought I could turn the 33 measures into one MM rest by changing the double barline at the end of 3rd measure and hiding the time signature in the 4th measure, but it still came out as two MM rests, equally divided.
I even tried, using Multimeasure Rests, Edit, and changing the width of the first one to .5 and the 2nd to 2.25. They look perfect on the screen—until I print, and then it reverts to both of them being 1.25 wide.
Why won't they stay as I set them? And more important, how can I get it to stay put?
Thanks,
The first of those multi-measure rests is 3 measures and the second is 30, but they show up in Finale as equal widths. I would like to have them proportional in the parts--as in the attached jpg file--and in order to do that, I thought it would be as easy as dragging the barline at the end of the first MM rest to the left. The trouble is, the moment I press "print", whether to create a PDF or to literally print it, the barline that I have moved manually bounces back to being right in the middle of the line.
I have attached the relevant part of the score, but because of formatting stuff I had to do, it will look like a mess to you (and to me). But you can see the multi-measure rests in the violin 1, violin 2, and violin 3 parts, in spite of that.
I thought I could turn the 33 measures into one MM rest by changing the double barline at the end of 3rd measure and hiding the time signature in the 4th measure, but it still came out as two MM rests, equally divided.
I even tried, using Multimeasure Rests, Edit, and changing the width of the first one to .5 and the 2nd to 2.25. They look perfect on the screen—until I print, and then it reverts to both of them being 1.25 wide.
Why won't they stay as I set them? And more important, how can I get it to stay put?
Thanks,