on 6/20/03 11:24 AM, Colin Broom wrote: >>> From: Brad Beyenhof <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> >>> As far as I know, Finale never "guesses" at stem direction in layers. >>> Layers 1 & 3 are always "stem up" when more than one layer is present, > and >>> layers 2 & 4 are always "stem down" under the same circumstances. If > only >>> one layer is present, it intelligently places the stems based on the >>> position of the note. > > From: "Richard Huggins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >> Brad, I presume you merly overlooked pointing out that Finale doesn't >> "always" know this unless it previously has been set as a preference in >> Options > Document > Layers. If the stem direction preferences haven't > been >> set by the user to follow the specified behavior, Finale will treat all >> layers as if they are the only layer, and stems in every layer will be up > or >> down based on the note position. > > The truth of the matter is somewhere in the middle of these two opinions. > Finale's layer 1 is set by default to put the stems upwards when notes are > in another layer, and the notes of layer 2 are set by default to go down > when notes are in another layer. Layers 3 and 4 are not by default > configured in any particular way, so stems behave as if no notes are in > other layers.
However, as pointed out by Richard, this is merely the behavior in Coda's default template file in Fin2003. You can change it to whatever you want, in individual files or in the default file itself. ------------- Brad Beyenhof [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
