They may just be relicts of the section of code that the text expression editor shares with the text-tool editor, but not be applicable. I don't see how they could be if the data files are identical (or at least shareable) between the two platforms.
On the other hand they may work -- try highlighting all of the expression text and see if they become useable.
David H. Bailey
Rob Deemer wrote:
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
Rob Deemer Doctoral Candidate in Music Composition, Assistant Director, UT New Music Ensemble The University of Texas at Austin _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
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