Beaming with grace notes

General notation questions, including advanced notation, formatting, etc., go here.

Moderators: Peter Thomsen, miker

User avatar
motet
Posts: 8225
Joined: Tue Dec 06, 2016 8:33 pm
Finale Version: 2014.5,2011,2005,27
Operating System: Windows

Post by motet » Sun Jan 27, 2019 5:10 pm

Here's an odd bug someone on Facebook ran into. If you want to beam the last two eighth notes across the grace note, putting the cursor on the E-flat and pressing / doesn't work as it would if the grace note wasn't there. If you put the cursor on the grace note and press /, nothing happens either, but if you then go back to the E-flat, you can now create the beam with the slash. (This only works if you press / an odd number of times while on the grace note, so it's toggling something invisibly.)


mknoll
Posts: 43
Joined: Tue Jan 03, 2017 2:08 pm
Finale Version: 2014, 2014.5, 25
Operating System: Mac

Post by mknoll » Wed Jan 30, 2019 10:14 pm

This has been the behavior for as long as I can remember, and I've been using Finale since version 1. I guess the way I think about it is that since you're beaming across two notes you have to hit the / key on each of them. Never considered it a bug, though.

User avatar
motet
Posts: 8225
Joined: Tue Dec 06, 2016 8:33 pm
Finale Version: 2014.5,2011,2005,27
Operating System: Windows

Post by motet » Thu Jan 31, 2019 1:09 am

Well, when you hit / on the grace note, nothing visible happens, which is not good UI practice.

mknoll
Posts: 43
Joined: Tue Jan 03, 2017 2:08 pm
Finale Version: 2014, 2014.5, 25
Operating System: Mac

Post by mknoll » Thu Jan 31, 2019 1:11 pm

I agree that it's not very intuitive.

User avatar
zuill
Posts: 4418
Joined: Sat Dec 10, 2016 9:35 pm
Finale Version: Finale 2011-v26.3.1
Operating System: Windows

Post by zuill » Thu Jan 31, 2019 1:35 pm

When I entered your example myself, the beam appeared automatically. Maybe the method of entry is a factor.

Zuill
Windows 10, Finale 2011-v26.3.1
"When all is said and done, more is said than done."

Post Reply