At 10:19 AM 10/18/03, Tim Thompson wrote: >One more observation to add to those by others: the arpeggiando lines >are too tightly positioned to the chords, accidentals, clefs, etc. For >these, make sure you have avoid collision of articulations checked in >the music spacing options. Place the marks far enough left of the >chord and accidentals (just far enough that does not appear to be up >against a note or accidental), and then respace the music.
Personally, I find respacing with articulations checked to be unsatisfactory in cases when the arpeggio is on the downbeat. If the arpeggio line is the same distance from the barline to the left as an unarpeggiated chord would be, that distance looks too wide to my eye. Respacing with articulations unchecked is even worse, of course; the optimal position is somewhere in between. I usually do this with case-by-case tweaking. If I have a piece with a lot of arpeggios, I'll place all of the downbeat ones a uniform distance too close to the chord on my first pass, respace with articulations checked, and then move them all left to their proper position. I suppose it would be nice if one could set different values for distance before the first item in a measure depending on what that first item is. I'd like to adjust the distance for a measure starting with an accidental as well, though in that case the default is close enough that I generally leave it alone except in special cases. mdl _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
