Gerry Kirk wrote:
A composition I'm engraving calls for accents with tenuto marks above
(and below) numerous notes. Is there a way to create a single
articulation, or combine those two articulations, rather than
entering each separately? (Or a means to program a metatool to make
entering the two symbols a single step?)
This is a bit badly explained in the User's manual.
Having selected the articulation tool, click on a note; when the
articulation dialog box is displayed, select "shape" to the right of
the main, (or flipped) button, and then click on "Main" (or flipped),
which will take you to the shape selection dialog box. On this box, to
the right, select "create", which will take you to the shape designer.
Select the necessary font (Maestro), and using the character map for the
font, and defining the appropriate point size, determine and place the
font symbols (in this instance, for the accent, and tenuto lines) in the
shape box in relation to where you want them, to create a single
articulation.
If you have accidentally made a click somewhere you didn't want it in
defining your shape, the shape designer considers the point part of the
shape. Therefore, one thing I always do, in using the shape designer,
is just before quitting the shape, I change the zoom to a number like 25
percent, and select the entire visible part of the shape designer, while
using the selection tool of the shape designer (the arrow). If there
are any extra handles visible in this zoomed out image, I select them,
and delete them, before saving the shape.
ns
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