On Wednesday, July 7, 2004, at 06:26 PM, Darcy James Argue wrote:
On 07 Jul, 2004, at 09:40 AM, Christopher BJ Smith wrote:
Hmm, strictly, the standard as I learned (and Finale defaults to, apparently) is that accidentals are vertically stacked for the interval of a seventh or more, and for a sixth or less the lower accidental is offset to the left.
Actually, Finale doesn't default to that at all -- as you say later in the post, Finale displaces the accidental to the left regardless of the interval involved.
In the case you mentioned (a left-displaced upper note), yes, but for two accidentals in a chord Finale invokes the "stack a seventh" rule by default.
The whole thing about whether to displace on a sixth vs. fifth was an unwanted can of worms -- I know engravers may differ on that. I should have posted a larger interval in my original post -- what I was really wondering was whether displacing the accidental to the left when there is unambiguously "a lot of room" (i.e., a seventh or larger) was ever considered acceptable.
For sure on large intervals Finale is wrong. I'm sure you have noticed the way Finale looks vertically for ANY possible collision, whether or not there IS one, especially when checking accidentals, chord symbols, text expressions, and lyrics. I would change Finale's errors in these cases whenever they arise (for engraving purposes. For my usual quick-and-dirty stuff, I couldn't spare the time.)
Also, thanks to Javier for the TGTools fix. I'll try that now.
Cheers,
- Darcy
Christopher
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