At 10:18 PM 06/27/02, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >What I am wondering about is whether the MAC version (mis)behaves the same >way as my Windows version. To test this, set up two measures in A flat with >8 quarter notes that are B flats. Now go into the "speedy entry" tool, and >change the first quarter notes of each measure to B natural using the + key, >which is supposed to raise ONLY ONE note to B natural. What happens is that >it puts a natural before the quarter note, but then does NOT put a flat >before the second quarter note.
I don't have 2002 installed anymore, but it doesn't work this way in WinFin2003 -- the second Bb immediately gets a flat sign. And I know that I've done this same thing in WinFin2002 and had the same result -- not the result you describe. It sounds to me like you've got an odd setting somewhere, or maybe a strange staff transposition or something. >Now I used the "hide/show courtesy accidentals" (*) key on the natural, and >it makes the natural disappear, which is also wrong, since the natural is >NOT a courtesy accidental. Yes, well I think the key is poorly named. It will hide or show any accidental, not just ones which are technically "courtesy". >One of the people at Coda said," Well the natural is still there, you've >hidden it." Why would you ever want that in any practical situation? When I was first starting out with Finale, I remember really screwing up the setup of some transposing staffs. In the end, since I was interested only in printed parts, not playback, the quickest solution to some of my problems was hiding some accidentals so that the note would look correct to the player, even if playing back the Finale file would have yielded some strange chromatic results. In other words, I was hiding an accidental that was technically correct according to the notes I had entered and the transposition I had (incorrectly) set up, but which gave a note other than the one I actually wanted the player to see. Aaron. _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
