Your idea about importing them might be a good one. But you could make these in Shape Designer. Go to Expression Tool, double-click a note or measure, chose Shape, click Create, click Select, click Create. Now you're in the Shape Designer box.
Choose the Ellipse Tool (looks like an oval). Hold Shift down (*very important*) and drag outward until you get the circle the size you need. And just what would that be? Well, only you know. I experimented and it seems that if you make the circle big enough so that it fits over the round handle in the middle of the box, it looks pretty good in comparison to the notes on the page. To edit this circle smaller or wider, click on one of the *corners* of the editing box that appears when you click it with the pointer. Hold Shift down again and expand or contract the circle. (Holding Shift down maintains a perfect circle.) Once you get the size circle you want, click OK it. This is your safety; leave it alone. Next, Duplicate it, click the new one then click Edit to return to the Shape Designer. Click the circle. Look under the Edit menu and you'll discover to your delight that you can Copy this shape. Do that. Then use Paste and another one appears. Using this method you can stack as many as you wish. Use the Line Tool to create the horizontal line (bar) you wanted. How to get some of them black? Easy. Click one, then look in the Shape designer menu and poull down to Fill, which opens a sub-menu that has "Black" in it. Choose it and watch the circle fill with black. If you want the thickness of the line to be different, click the circle and in the Shape designer menu you'll see where you can change the line thickness. I suppose you'll have to create a separate set of stacked-and-filled circles for each of the respective fingerings you have to indicate. Lastly, get on your knees and count your blessings because if you had to use the Shape Designer of not too many versions ago you would buy a revolver and end your life. Richard > From: Glenn Adams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Has anyone come across having to reproduce a woodwind fingering chart for > playing multiphonics? I have to do one for bassoon and I'm stumped on how to > do it. It's basically three circles stacked vertically, then solid line > horizontally, and three more circles, the circles being either filled in > with black or white indicating fingering for the player. Is creating and > importing a graphic file from Photoshop or Illustator the way to go here? Or > is there a way to do this in Finale? _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
