Ah well, not quite as convenient as it seemed at first sight. I did a trial run. It turns out the % tool doesn't affect notes within a beamed group. A lot of my examples are rolls, eg in 6/8 eighth-grace-eighth-grace-eighth; the % tool only works on the first note of the group, affecting the size of every note in the triplet.
Back to the drawing board (and copy-and-paste!). But the technique will work for close to 50% of the examples, I think, so I'll use both methods. John On 5/3/05 8:49 PM, "Noel Stoutenburg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > John Roberts wrote: > >> Unlike with percentage tool-reduced notes, lyrics to not shrink with grace >> notes, >> even with fixed size unchecked. Articulations do, expressions do, but lyrics >> don't. (At least not in the file I'm working on). So I thought I'd sound out >> the wisdom of the list. >> >> > OK, I think this is how I'd do it: go to options > document settings > > notation options, make a note of the figure in the "grace note" box, > and then change the value to 100. Now, notate your grace note, use the > re-size tool to change the size to the value you noted in the notation > option box for the grace note, and then apply the key to make the note > you just entered and resized a grace. > > If I've reasoned it out correctly, what this should do, is give you a > regular note, which you manually resize, in the process resizing the > lyric and everything else associated with the note, and then making it > the reduces size note a grace note of 100 percent size, which will give > it all the other characteristics (such as not adding a fraction of a > beat) of a grace note. > > ns > _______________________________________________ > Finale mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
