On 5 Jul 2005 at 22:20, Mark D Lew wrote:

> A year or two ago, I did some experimenting with grace note spacing to
> try to figure out what was going on.  Unfortunately, I didn't keep
> good notes, but I remember that once you figured out the bizarro logic
> of how Finale was attempting to respace the grace notes, there were
> methods you could use that would work out and not lead to trouble.
> 
> I think it has something to do with how you apply the nudging 
> adjustments, and Finale's errant attempt to compensate for your
> nudges, but I can't recall exactly how it worked.

But the spacing is wrong *before* I've nudged anything. Nudging and 
then respacing gets me back to exactly the same place it was before I 
did any manual adjustment.

> In an attempt to jog my memory, I just now tried some quick
> experiments (in FinMac 2k2) and -- strange as it seems -- I was unable
> to get any grace note spacing to come out wrong.  If you want to
> distill a file down to just a couple of measures with examples of
> grace notes that are spacing screwily and send that file to me, I'll
> take a look and see if I can't diagnose.  I'm sort of curious about it
> myself, so I don't mind spending a little time on the problem.

I can't get to it until much later today. I'll try to remember.

Of course, as with so many of the problems I encounter, it may be 
another of those artifacts of conversion from files created in older 
versions of Finale.

That's not really acceptable as an excuse, but it seems to be used as 
one by those who comment on my reports of bugs here in this forum. I 
can't fathom how it's somehow acceptable to be required to recreate 
all your files each time you get a new version of Finale. I don't 
even know how I'd go about doing it, giving the massive number of 
bugs in the mass copying features.

-- 
David W. Fenton                        http://www.bway.net/~dfenton
David Fenton Associates                http://www.bway.net/~dfassoc

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