----- Original Message ----- From: "David W. Fenton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, July 06, 2005 10:39 PM Subject: Re: [Finale] Grace Note Spacing
> 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 > David Try unchecking "avoid collision of ledger lines" (Document options/music spacing). That might solve the problem. Well, just if you don't mind the collision of those ledger lines. I'd much rather see Finale avoiding that collision and re-spacing the notes inside the other staves. Or is it already possible to do that? Regards Rafael Velasco _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
