Aaron Sherber wrote:
At 09:20 PM 7/6/2004, Mark D Lew wrote: >The specific feature I most miss from my typesetting days is auto-tabs.
Mark, this was a very interesting post -- but I think we mean different things by "typesetting", believe it or not. I gather that you're talking about things which you had on the Compugraphic, but when I think of typesetting I think of setting actual type -- that is, hand composition.
and because of an interest in the "look and feel" of the old hand-set music typefaces, I've actually spent some time reading and learning about typesetting. I have found that many techniques used in typesetting are directly applicable in Finale, at least have very close approximations, especially in text boxes. For example, if a person setting a justified page in handset type needed a small amount of width to make the justification correct, he had available spacers of an appropriate size. The same thing is available in a text box; if you need a line of 12 point test longer by about 1/3 off the width of a space. Simple solution add and extra space to the line, and if you define that space to be of four point size instead of 12 point, and you'll have a space 1/3 as long as a regular space.
ns
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