I know of no automated way to set up cross-staff notation. It requires a manual combination of the Stem Reversal and Beam Adjustment tools in Special Tools. Your problems with 16ths may be the result of not using the Stem Reversal tool as needed.
However, if you have fairly repetitive sequences of cross-staff notation, my Mass Copy plugin greatly facilitates them because it allows you to copy your work. That is, you only need manually to set up the pattern once, and then Mass Copy can copy it to as many other places as you like (leaving the notes as they are.) When you open the Mass Copy window, check Cross Staff and then go into the stem & beam options and check Beam Adjustments and Stem Reversals. Select the source pattern, click "Set Source", then select the target and select "Paste". The target can be larger than the source both horizonatlly and vertically, in which case Mass Copy replicates the pattern according to metric duration, irrespective of barlines. I find that even if copying a source pattern doesn't produce exactly what I want in every instance, editing the result is much less work than doing all the work from scratch. On Tue, 14 May 2002, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote > > 1) I'm doing a piano piece with a lot of cross-staff notation. I'm > finding it difficult to notate so that the beam lies between staves with > stems going up and down from it. With special tools, I can make it work > with eighth notes but 16ths pose additional problems. Is there an easy > way to do this that I've missed? > -- Robert Patterson http://RobertGPatterson.com _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
