Okay...
Let's say you have the following chord (or "cluster," if you must), in a
treble clef staff, reading from bottom to top, all notes in the staff:
Gb - E - F
Finale displaces the flat in the Gb to the left -- so that it appears to
the left of the (left-displaced) E. However, there is more than enough
room for the flat to fit under the E in its usual, non-displaced, position.
What do y'all do in this situation? Leave it as is, or drag the flat
back to the right?
David H. Bailey wrote:
If there's room, I would suggest dragging it back to the right for
clarity. I have found that often people reading music with displaced
accidentals that way have a problem wondering if it's an Eb where the
flat was displaced too high or a Gb, where the flat was displaced to the
left.
As long as there's room for easy reading, I'd go for clarity every time,
even if Finale is following some older convention.
My 2c:
I do this too, as David suggests. The copyist for most of the National Jazz Ensemble's repertoire, Bill Rowen, taught me that a 5th is the limit for lining up accidentals (vertically) rather than a 6th or 7th. There's a place in the document options to change this, but it doesn't seem to work, and applying a Document Options library with a 5th selected, rather than the default 6th, (to an existing file) can result in wildly screwed up results with far too much horizontal displacement for some accidentals. I haven't been able to determine if the problem occurs on chords in which I've made previous hand adjustments or if it is simply random. I wish the Finale folks would fix this.
Chuck
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