At 4:31 PM 09/22/03, Christopher BJ Smith wrote: >Not a very practical response, sorry. I need this very soon. > >Does anyone else know the ins and outs of the manual spacing? Why >doesn't "incorporate manual spacing" appear to work in this case? How >can I stop Finale from "correcting" my spacing?
Are you sure you have automatic music spacing turned off? Everything you describe sounds familiar to me except for the part about Finale continually readjusting it when you're not asking it to. Forget about "incorporate manual spacing" for now, just make sure that automatic music spacing is off. Then you can fix the measure at your leisure and it will stay put. (If you need music spacing for the rest of the piece, just select every measure except the problem measure and do it with the "4".) As for fixing the measure itself, it sounds like you've got the dot and the flat figured out with special tools. If you don't like the spacing of the measure, do it yourself with the beat chart (Measure Tool: click lower handle of measure) and change the measure width if necessary. (By the way, I'm not recommending this as a routine habit, just a way to get around your immediate problem in a hurry.) mdl _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
