I've done this (the layer 2 et al trick), and it works.
--Lynn
On Jun 23, 2005, at 12:21 PM, Chuck Israels wrote:
Dear Bill,
This is something jazz writers need to do all the time, and there are
a couple of ways of using layers and staff styles to do this. The way
I do it most often is to enter the notes into layer 2 (while making
sure that the document options do not freeze the stems, ties and rests
of that layer when there are no "notes in other layers" - see
document options - layers). Then I enter quarter note rests (usually,
that's enough rhythmic detail for chord anchors) into layer 1 and then
choose "blank notation - Layer 1 from the staff styles, making sure
that that staff style is defined to show items attached to notes.
When you apply this staff style to the staves which already have your
music, plus the now ugly overlay of quarter rests in layer 1, the
quarter rests will disappear, and the stems, ties & rests, of the
notes in layer 2, even if they have been frozen into places you didn't
want while the rests were showing, will now revert to the normal
default, and you can now type in the chords you need in any quarter
note "place" in layer 1. This should work fine, and becomes pretty
easy after doing it only a couple of times. There are more
sophisticated ways of using the layers in such a way that one can copy
the chords and their anchors to new places that contain music in layer
1. In this case, you need to create a blank staff style in another
layer (usually layer 4) that has a few more requirements, but unless
you have to transfer chords from place to place, over different music
entries, this is probably more than you'll need. Try the easier
method first.
Hope this helps.
Chuck
On Jun 23, 2005, at 12:03 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
When generating a lead sheet, it is often desirable to have chords
that sequence under a fixed melody note. For example, you might have
an 8 beat whole note where a sequence of chords are changing under
it. This is not in keeping with the way finale anchors chords, since
it the chord anchor must be on a tied note, note or rest. I have not
seen any way to anchor a chord to a note that's not in the staff.
One can generate an artificial chord anchor by breaking a long note
into tied notes, but that makes it awkward to read the music, and
it's not good notation practice.
I tried hanging chords onto alternate layers, but that means sticking
notes into the score that don't belong, and I have not figured out
how to suppress the printing out of the alternate layers. That really
confuses things.
Has anyone figured out a way around this?
Yours; Bill S.
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