Lon Price schrieb:
Time and knowledge base indeed. I'm one of those people who are sick of
tweaking, and would like for the default settings to be at least <close>
to usable. I'm working on a book of pieces for flute and piano for my
students, and I find that I'm having to do a lot of tweaking to get
things to look right:
1. Virtually <every> slur has to be tweaked. If I change the music
spacing I can pretty much count on slurs going haywire, being drawn at
an ungodly height, for instance, and colliding with all manner of
notational elements--ties, accidentals, expressions, etc. But even when
I let Finale do the spacing, slurs still get drawn at ungodly heights.
Transposing the music makes slurs go nuts too.
Which version of Finale, pre or post Engraver slurs. If you are using a
recent version it sounds to me like your font annotation has gone crazy,
or your Engraver slur settings are wrong.
There are problems with Engraver slurs, but it sounds you are having
addtional problems.
2. Same with tuplets. I thought these had been improved, but when I do
a simple group of quarter triplets, using Speedy note entry, the bracket
is almost never the right height, requiring more tweaking. Then if I
transpose the part, I have to tweak tuplets all over again.
3. Where is the freaking Maestro Default file, and how do I tweak
<that> so that I don't get a one-inch left margin on a file created from
the Setup Wizard?
The setup wizard uses the pagesizes.txt file for margins, so the ones
in the default file get overlooked. Change the pagesizes.txt file, look
it up in the appendix of the manual.
Johannes
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http://www.musikmanufaktur.com
http://www.camerata-berolinensis.de
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