On 17 Mar 2004 at 9:35, Christopher BJ Smith wrote:
At 7:51 PM -0500 3/16/04, David W. Fenton wrote: > >Why should blank notation be used in spacing?
So that chord symbols attached to blank items can be taken into account for spacing. So that hidden items could add extra space without appearing, to make room for things that you need to add as graphics or text. . .
Yes, but in defining a staff style, you get to choose whether or not those things are visible or not. If they are visible, yes, they should be used for spacing. If they aren't, they shouldn't be.
My point was, sometimes you need to fool Finale into making room for something that isn't visible, for instance, I might want a bunch of extra space added at some point in the measure so that I could add a text box over it. The text box wouldn't be taken into account for spacing (they never are) so I need to force the space to appear in the measure without anything showing.
Am I the only person who prepares files for playback in this fashion? I'm pretty sure I got this technique from recommendations made by members of this list.
This sounds like a situation for TechSupport. They must have an idea about this, if they changed implementation of blank notation spacing. Or maybe it was a bug?
Christopher
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