Dear Rob,
I don't think justification is allowed in text expressions. However, you might be able to use a measure-attached text block instead. In Scroll View double-click and drag a box large enough for the expression. Text will wrap. The bounding box can be adjusted either horizontally or vertically to fit your block of text. Then you can apply justification.
Hal
Thanks Noel,
I'm not sure that's it...Finale obviously has given us the ability to create multi-line
text expressions within the expression designer. The Text menu for the Expression
Designer has some, but not all, of the capabilities of the Text Tool and Justification is
one of them. I'm just trying to figure out what toggles that feature from greyed to
activated.
I'm on a Mac, btw...
--- Noel Stoutenburg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:Rob Deemer wrote:
>Hello all,
>
>I'm finishing up orchestrating a ballet (aka my dissertation) and I'm running into an
odd
>problem. When I'm working in the Text Expression Designer and have an expression that
has
>more than one line, the Justification tools are greyed out. Any ideas on why this is
and
>how I can get it working again? Thanks!
>
My best answer: the designers of Finale consider that an expression is
going to be so short that it can fit into a single line, and that
therefore, justification is unnecessary, and didn't provide for
justification in expressions. Best workaround: hide the expressions,
and create a duplicate expression as a measure attached text-block if
you need the justification.
I haven't had the need to use this feature yet, so I've not tried this second choice: use hard [non-breaking] spaces to put the justification in manually. In windows, the nonbreaking space is created by pressing down the "Alt-" key, while entering the digits "0173" on the numeric keypad.
ns
-Rob
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