Re: [Finale] measure numbers and upbeats

[Johannes Gebauer]

Nonetheless, that upbeat measure should not have it's own number. I 
don't know what kind of piece you are doing, but musically the correct 
way to notate this is to have _two_ incomplete measures, ie (in 4/4) a 
measure with 3 quarters and one with one quarter, and both are in fact 
the same measure (and get the same measure number). If your source does 
not give you this option the upbeat measure should still not get it's 
own number imo.
Depending on the circumstances you could consider to start new measure 
numbers, which would make the upbeat measure 0 (or "-1").

Johannes
d. collins wrote:
I know we discussed something similar recently, but what does one when, 
in the middle of a piece, a new section starts with an upbeat and an 
incomplete measure? It looks rather strange to have no way of 
identifying that measure by a number if numbers are only given to 
complete measures.

Thanks,
Dennis
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