On Jun 18, 2005, at 1:14 PM, Jacki Barineau wrote:
on 6/18/05 3:42 PM, Harold Owen wrote:
Jacki,
Go to Options/Document Options/Music Spacing and check "Lyrics" under
"Avoid collision...." Select measures where lyrics collide, and press
4, then update the layout. If that doesn't solve the problem, you may
have to use "Fit Music" to arrange for fewer measures per system.
Thanks so much, Hal! The "4" did the trick - what is that a
command for
anyway?! Neat little thing there...!
- Jacki
Jumping in after Hal gave you a thorough method - the "4" with the
Mass Edit tool selected will apply what Finale calls "Note
Spacing" (hardly any different, in my experience, than "Beat
Spacing" ["3" will apply that]) - but it seems to be the one most of
us use, most of the time. You can control what that tool does by
looking in the Options Menu under Document Options/Music Spacing, as
Hal suggested. There are sometimes reasons to change the
configuration of that option, but most of the time, you'll end up
leaving it alone, once you've set it up the way you like. In the
Edit Menu (at the bottom of the list), you can select Automatic
Update Layout, and Automatic Music Spacing, then you will rarely need
to apply the "4" or the Update Layout command (command \, on a
Mac). Some people prefer to work with these things de-selected,
saying that having them working automatically in the background slows
things down. I haven't noticed that on my setup, so I leave them on
all the time.
Chuck
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