First, with shift-gray-plus, I add extra room to allow for the "margins" in the middle of the split measure (don't know the correct vocabulary since I'm Dutch). Then, I force the second half of the measure down one system. If the measure "margins" still aren't right, I switch to scroll view and adjust the split point from there - much easier to see what one's doing. Then back to page view and judge the result. And perhaps repeat those two steps several times, till I'm satisfied. Works fine for me.
On 4/29/2004 7:10 PM, Mark D Lew wrote:
I think the part I hated most was that once the split point it entered, the beat chart doesn't appear properly. I once had a song where I was obliged to resort to a split point. It was a tiny bit too long for one page, and way too short for two, but the split point gave me what I needed to squeeze it onto one page.
However, because the page was so crowded, it was necessary to make tiny spacing adjustments to the cramped measures for optimal look. I do this by tweaking the beat chart. In a normal measure it's slightly tedious but not a big deal. In the split measure it was awful, because what I need to eyeball is the half-measure on either side of the split point, but Finale only gives me the beat chart for the entire measure, jammed in tight. As a result I'm tweaking blind and I have to re-update the layout after every adjustment to see what I got. Yuck.
mdl
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