On 29 Apr 2004 at 11:29, Johannes Gebauer wrote: > On 29.04.2004 2:47 Uhr, Owain Sutton wrote > > > I consider it both a shame (for Finale and its reputation) if it's > > necessary to use a different font because it shows a limitation in > > the software, and a shame (in presentational terms) that there is no > > coherence between the music on the staves and the notation above or > > below them. > > This is actually a pretty silly request. The Finale fonts have, like > most other music fonts, certain characteristics, including a > standardized size, and a base line which goes through the middle of > many of the symbols. That's a requirement, as only this makes it > possible for Finale to use most other music fonts on the market, > including Opus (from Sibelius) or Sonata. It is simply impossible to > have the same characteristics while making the font also usable as > text fonts, which they are not designed to be. > > It's not a limitation in the software. Had the software and the fonts > been designed otherwise it would be much more difficult or even > impossible to use other music fonts. Now that would be bad software > design. > > What's wrong with using the Bach font?
In a Finale Text Box, which is the context of the original question, as others have already pointed out, there are predefined shortcuts for sharps, flats and naturals. To see all the "inserts" available to you, while typing into a textbox (directly into scroll or page view) or in the Text Box Edit dialog, go to the TEXT menu and choose INSERTS. Now, for anything other than sharp, flat, natural, double sharp and double flat, you basically have to either futz around with changing baselines and line spacing, or you need a font with music characters in it that's designed to be used inline with text fonts. Also keep in mind that the Engraver Text fonts have lots of useful characters in them, and it has proper line height and baseline. -- David W. Fenton http://www.bway.net/~dfenton David Fenton Associates http://www.bway.net/~dfassoc _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
