Use smart-shape slurs on the half-notes and drag them to be the shape you need to represent the last halves of ties.
Crystal Premo wrote: > I am working on a cut version of Some Else's Story from the conductor's > score of Chess. > > I have noticed that in some place, a progression of four eighth notes > will be beamed together, but in other places not. There is nothing > obvious that sets them apart: no articulations or slurs. Since I have > noticed that conductor's scores can be filled with errors, I am > wondering if this is error or actually something that would indicate > phrasing for the keyboardist. > > Also, in the last two measures of the piano accompaniment of the piece > there is a whole note chord tied to a half note chord in the last > measure. It is interrupted by a run of eighth notes which begins in the > bass clef and crosses the path of the tied chords. In the score, the > copyist has broken the ties to allow the eighth notes to be visible. > Playback is not important on this job, so I created the ties reaching > out from the whole notes with let it ring noteheads from the Engraver > font. It works quite nicely because the top two notes of the chord must > have ties which arch upward, and the bottom note must have one which > arches downward. I can't use this solution with the ties which reach > backward from the half note chord, as there is not let it ring notehead > which reaches to the left. If I use the tie backward function, to > create the backward-reaching ties from the half note chord, they reach > across the eighth note run to the whole note chord. If I use the > Special Tools ties going backward and shorten them to accommodate the > eighth notes, I cannot flip the two top note ties upward. Or, actually, > I can't flip them at all. This is not very important, as the singer > requesting the work will most likely not even notice this small > discrepancy, but I am wondering how to work this out for a time when it > does matter > > Thanks, > > Crystal Premo > [EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > _________________________________________________________________ > MSN Photos is the easiest way to share and print your photos: > http://photos.msn.com/support/worldwide.aspx > > _______________________________________________ > Finale mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://mail.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale > -- David H. Bailey [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
