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?
I've always thought that the behavior of secondary beams is uncommonly stupid when "extend secondary beams over rests" is checked. Does anyone ever like those ridiculous oversized beam stubs? I know I don't.
I agree with your assessment of what it ought to look like. I would have thought that this could be achieved with some combination of the special tools, but after playing around with it for a while, I'm as stumped as you are.
The best I can suggest is a kludge, with your example 3 as a starting point. From there, you can fill in the incomplete beam either with a shape expression placed just right, or else -- my choice -- a non-playing second layer made up of 16th notes defined as tuplets so that they exactly overwrite the actual notes (ie, one 16th in the space of three 32nds, then one 16th in the space of one 32nd, etc.). You'll also have to move the beams up vertically on the kludge layer to get them lined up right.
I can spell it out in more detail, but I think you get the idea. It's a pain in the butt, but I believe it yields the result you want.
mdl
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