In 12/8 time, rhythm= dabbitty,dabbitty, dah-dah-dah. repeated several times. (Same effect as "America" from West Side Story- but I know that's in 6/8,) The 'big triplet' at the end of each measure is correctly notated- crotchet, quaver-quaver (tied), crotchet. Problem is the two qs are spaced too far apart and it looks very clumsy- I usually 'note-mover' then closer together manually, giving a visual clue to the "c=2q" effect. Can I pre-request preferred spacing on this particular feature only? Or is the concensus of opinion that I use 3 quarter notes instead? This 'hides' the fourth beat, but is certainly 'cleaner' looking.
Another 12/8 prob. I like to use dotted half note rest, quarter rest, eighth rest, then (possibly) note on 4th beat. If I mass-move this measure it changes to(assuming quarternote=q, eighthnote= e,) qrest,erest,qrest,erest,qrest,erest,note. Why does it change? Can I stop it? A quick aside! Having seen the various 'codes' used to try to explain things (q=quarternote, qr=quarter rest etc) can we- as a group, come up with a standard code? One prob is of course that to many people q= quarternote, while to others q=quaver. One suggestion of mine would be - )once we've agreed what q equals!) is that e.g.Q=note, and q=rest, E=note, e=rest. Pitch could be in brackets after value. or, we could use keyboard symbols-e.g. quarternote=@, eighth=* but I think we'd run out of options. Sorry to go on but it's an ongoing problem! BTW, did anyone else on the list receive a [Finale] (flagged!) message about a PORN website? It was very quickly deleted, but I seem to remember it was from a woman- and Yes,- it was Finale flagged in the subject box! It's a worry! Regards, Keith in OZ. _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
