On 6 Jul 2005 at 18:06, Mark D Lew wrote: > On Jul 6, 2005, at 8:47 AM, David W. Fenton wrote: > > > 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. > > So you've got a case where you enter identical rhythms and get > non-identical spacing before doing any nudging? If so, that's what > I'd like to see a sample of. (Or maybe you can just describe it in > email text?)
Well, I just created a new default document and tried it, and it doesn't exhibit the problem. The problem is in this file: http://www.dfenton.com/Midi/HoffmeisterQuintet.mus If you go to mm. 5:14 and 6:110 and respace with metatool 4, you'll see the problem the violin and viola parts should be vertically aligned, because they are both at 75% reduction in the score. If you remove the spacing adjustments and respace, you'll see what happens -- it returns to the exact same bad spacing. > My thinking is that Finale's grace note spacing, although often ugly, > is at least consistent. My goal here is to understand it's internal > logic so as to have a pattern of practices that lets us get decent > results so long as we remember to do it the right way. > > I'm interested in neither criticizing nor justifying Finale's > behavior. > The program is what it is; I just want to figure out how to best use > it as it is. I think it's broken, but the problem may be with older files. It's still broken, though. -- David W. Fenton http://www.bway.net/~dfenton David Fenton Associates http://www.bway.net/~dfassoc _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
