dhbailey / 04.11.28 / 9:45AM wrote:
Rarely do I see commercial publications where a partial-width final system or staff is the case. Most of the time, each system or staff runs the full width of the page. That is what I prefer to see, and don't mind editing the parts to accomplish that, moving measures as necessary to get the page to look proper with a fully-justified final system.
I agree. But then how do you deal with the last system contains only 2 or 3 bars stretching and showing ugly looking? I didn't ask Finale to be smart that far, meaning calculating entire portion to even out to the last system :-)
Finale is after all only a computer program, it's not a human music engraver. The program is designed to provide full-width systems and staves. It makes its best guess at spacing issues involving all the measures of the piece and puts whatever is leftover on the final system, stretched full width.
I find it to be only a matter of a small effort to move measures around to get the final systems to look fine.
It basically boils down to a choice between 2 different standards of "ugly-looking" -- there's the ugly looking aspect of too few measures stretched to fill the width of the page and then there's the ugly looking aspect of the final system not stretching across the full page but having whatever measures it contains spaced normally.
The way I deal with the final system is to move measures down from preceding systems until they all balance out and the layout looks proper to my eye.
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