I wrote earlier: >I've just opened Finale and read the stuff about measure-attached >slurs, which I didn't know existed, but which turn out to be a form of >shape expression. I created a measure-attached slur and tried to >superimpose a measure-attached text expression over it. As soon as I >re-drew the screen the slur showed through the nominally opaque >background again. When I tried superimposing it on the staff instead >the staff lines were masked but the notes showed through.
Michael Cook (and others?) wrote that there was also the possibility of creating measure-attached slurs in the smart shape menu, so I've been messing about with various combinations of slur and expression. The existing text expression in the file, to which I had added the opaque background, still showed the slur, but didn't show the staff lines when I put it over the staff. Now I've moved it again and it shows everything, just as if "opaque" wasn't ticked. Depending on where it is on the screen the whole expression sometimes disappears. I then used exactly the same text expression, adding the opaque background immediately, and it masks the slur and staff lines but doesn't mask notes. I created a third one (a pause sign in a large enclosure) which masks all staff lines and some but not all notes. I'm currently using FinWin 2000c but it's possible the file in question was generated from something in an earlier version, as I tend to use old files of a similar type as templates. At least I've learnt some new possibilities, some of them undesirable! Patsy -- Patsy Moore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (formerly [EMAIL PROTECTED]) Conductor, arranger, etc. etc. Newbury College Late Starters' Orchestra Web site: http://www.mooremusic.org.uk N.B. our system rejects emails of more than 300k automatically: warn me beforehand if you want to send one. _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
