On 23 Jul 2004 at 21:55, Michael Cook wrote:

> >2. How do I get the articulations (staccatos in my case) to appear on
> >the noteheads and not around the beam between the staves?
> 
> -- Just drag the staccatos to where you need them. If you really have
> a lot of staccatos on reverse stem notes, you might consider defining
> another staccato articulation, with positioning set to "On stem side".
> On a reverse stem note, this will get correctly positioned just above
> (or below) the notehead.

I wish the articulation placement algorithms where smart enough to 
place the articulations according to what the stem direction *really* 
is, rather than insisting on using what it *thinks* it should be.

I often override stem directions to what is "incorrect" but Finale is 
too stupid to know, and places the articulations according to the 
side where the stem would be by default. This means that the 
articulations are often upside down -- dragging doesn't help. The 
only solution is to maintain duplicate articulations for reversed 
stems.

The information is there. 

Finale should use it.

-- 
David W. Fenton                        http://www.bway.net/~dfenton
David Fenton Associates                http://www.bway.net/~dfassoc

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