I use the Custom Line Tool every time I need a word placed at any angle. It does this beautifully, and there are no lines involved.
Also, I use it every time I need to write the name of a Tuplet which is for example a ratio or some other string of characters which don't fit the standard scheme for tuplets. Liudas ----- Original Message ----- From: "Noel Stoutenburg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, September 27, 2003 6:32 AM Subject: Re: [Finale] The Joys of Custom Lines > Robert Patterson Finale wrote: > > >I sometimes have the impression that the Custom Line tool may be one of the most underused really powerful things in Finale. In an offline conversation with a Coda person, I complained that a major drawback of the CLT is that text (i.e., Left, Center Full, or Right) that is visible in a score could vanish in an extracted part with narrower spacing. I said this was a major flaw that needs to be fixed, at least as an option. His response was that "no one had ever asked for this since it came out in Finale 2000, so it couldn't be too big a problem." > > > I have begun makeing somewhat more use of custom lines (a subset of the > smart shape subsystem). For example, working with a score where I > wanted to line up the dynamics, I used the smart shape tool to create a > "guideline", to line up all the dynamic indications at the desired point > below the scale, deleting the guidline afterwards. > > The knowledge that it is there, and better understanding of how it works > leads to all sorts of possibilities.... > > ns > > _______________________________________________ > Finale mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
