On 12 May 2005 at 13:13, Neal Schermerhorn wrote: > If I want to assign an expression, like a dynamic marking, to one > staff but not another in a score, I can go through the dialogues > (time-consuming) or I can use the number shortcut (click while holding > 5 yields mf) but that method puts the expression on every staff. > > 1) What possessed them to make that the default?
I wondered about that with the first version of Finale that I used that combined note and measure expressions. I hardly ever use measure expressions, so the flip to preferring measure expressions as the default configuration was annoying. > 2) Is there a fast way to pop expressions in on only one staff? Easy: with the Expression tool selected, go to the Expressions menu and choose Metatools: Note Attached or Metatools: Context Sensitive. I use the former, since I so seldom use any measure expressions. The difference is that if Finale can identify the note you want the Expression attached to when you click the metatool, it makes it a note expression. If it can't identify the note, it makes it a measure expression. Since I occasionally click inaccurately (and miss the note), I'd prefer that nothing at all happens, rather than have Finale guess that I want a measure expression (which I almost never do, except for the tempo marking at the beginning of a movement). -- David W. Fenton http://www.bway.net/~dfenton David Fenton Associates http://www.bway.net/~dfassoc _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
