On 01.07.2002 0:39 Uhr, John Howell wrote >> But the problem with Finale spacing is that it becomes uglier as >> the music is becoming tighter. Am I silly or what? > > Finale's defaults (which I have complained about in the past and won't > repeat) give VERY wide spacing, which I feel leaves much too much space > unused and sets up poor page turns. And one piece we're playing on July > 4th (added parts done by one of our band's arrangers using Finale) has > really, really ugly dotted-8ths-16ths that are a challenge to translate > while playing. There may, indeed, be a problem with the spacing algorithms.
As far as I can tell there is indeed a problem with tighter spacing in Finale, but in recent versions it shows very seldomly. If it does show the result it too tightly spaced notes only in some measures, especially the combination note - accidental-note. It only shows when the spacing is tight but not very tight. Often making the spacing tighter (by moving another measure into the system) will make it disappear. For me, if the problem comes up, I found that most of the time TGTools Expand/Compress Spacing (doesn't matter which) with a value of 1 EVPU will fix it, at least on the second or third attempt. I have reported the problem several times to Coda, but it seems they haven't fixed it yet, though I haven't tried in 2k3. However, I don't agree that Finale's spacing looks ugly generally with tighter spacing. If you use values as I gave them in my other post it generally works _very_ well. Johannes PS There are some examples of my engraving showing quite well how I space the music on my site at http://www.musikmanufaktur.com Look for "Notenbeispiele" on the left. -- http://www.musikmanufaktur.com http://www.camerata-berolinensis.de _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
