On Jun 17, 2005, at 8:53 PM, Darcy James Argue wrote:
So, the advantage to this method over just clicking the "fixed size" button and entering the final point size directly would be.... ?
I can think of some small advantages. If you're using page reduction -- which I routinely do, never having made the adjustment to system reduction when it was introduced -- and you're being particularly about your layout, you've got to do the math on all your H and V positions anyway. I've found it's sometimes easier to imagine the entire page at the prereduced size and do all the calculations from there than keep track of which elements are in real size and which are in fixed size.
Another reason, more pertinent to me, is that Finale does not allow you to enter a fractional point size in any dialog box. (Or at least it didn't as of 2k2; if that's been fixed, I'll be delighted.) 10.5 pt is my preferred size for lyrics for many contexts (eg, chorus music that will be performed on book). There's no way to get that with fixed size, but it works nicely with 14pt on 75% page reduction.
That said, I agree that fixed size is usually the way to go. mdl _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
