This is what I do, but it has become harder to do now that Speedy has been downgraded.
Use the settings you used to achieve your graphic called Beam1. Take the note position tool from the special tools and drag the 32nd rests to the right in order to achieve the length of the 32nd beam which you want. For precision's sake select them all first and then figure out what you need to set your Nudge setting to to get a one-key-press fix for a given zoom and a given measure. There might even be a plugin for this ... "Move all 32nd note rests x amount to the right..." does this exist? Then go into the Frame Editor and find all the 128-Duration entries which don't have Note/Rest checked. These are the 32nd note rests. Then set the Displacement (towards the bottom of the window) of these to something big (I use 555 for simplicity's sake). This throws your rests off the page. Then enter the rests in Layer 2. This is the part that has become rediculously difficult where it used to be a piece of cake when everything used to line up perfectly in Speedy! Anybody know of an easier method? Liudas ----- Original Message ----- From: "Aaron Sherber" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, February 29, 2004 5:52 AM Subject: [Finale] Secondary beam problem > Hi all, > > I'm having some problems getting Finale to beam things the way I want -- > specifically, getting secondary beams right. > > http://files.aaron.sherber.com/beam1.gif shows a measure with Extend > secondary beams over rests on, and http://files.aaron.sherber.com/beam2.gif > shows the same measure with that setting off. > > The second example is clearly unacceptable, because the beams on the first > 32nd note point the wrong way, obscuring the fact that it goes rhythmically > with the preceding rest and 16th note. But I really don't like the global > style of the first example; the extended beam stubs look way too long. > > What I really want is for *complete* secondary beams to extend over rests, > but not beam stubs. In other words, I want something like example 1, but > with the 32nd beam stub shortened so as not to extend over the rest. To my > eyes, this is what I'm used to seeing in scores. > > The best I can do seems to be http://files.aaron.sherber.com/beam3.gif but > that double stub on the 32nd doesn't look right. Still, it's more legible > than beam2, and it doesn't look as ugly to me as beam1. > > I may be missing something obvious, but I can't find a document setting to > get Finale to do what I want, and I also can't find a tool that will let me > adjust the length of secondary beams within a measure. > > Am I missing something? Is this a candidate for a plugin? > > Thanks, > Aaron. > > _______________________________________________ > Finale mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
