On Jul 9, 2005, at 5:14 AM, Lon Price wrote:
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.
Yeah, I know of this. Darcy recently posted a fix for some it; when the slur arches too high when avoiding an accidental –
Darcy talking here:
In "Smart Slur Options," change the "Initial adjustment" from "Stretch" to "Lift," and enter a reasonable value for "Maximum Lift" (l use 9 pt., but YMMV).
This won't fix everything, but it will help.
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.
In Document Options>Tuplets, screw around with the vertical height under Default Position. Try both fields; Tuplet and Shape (bracket). This might improve the number of tuplets you have to adjust.
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? I thought I'd located it in the Components folder, so I tweaked the page layout settings for both score and parts to get rid of the one-inch left margin. Then, lo and behold, the next time I used the Setup Wizard I still got one-inch left margins. I have templates made for a lot of situations, but not <every> situation, so I need to use the Setup Wizard occasionally, as I suspect most <average> users do. Why is it such a mystery where this default file is located, and why is it so hard to preset things the way I want in Finale? Wouldn't House Styles eliminate this problem?
That IS the default file, but in order to have Finale recognise it (on a PC) you have to save it as a template.
There might be some settings that don't get saved. I have noticed, for example as you do, that the left margin gets set to one inch no matter what I do. This might just be a bug, or it might be an oversight.
To get around this, you might open a one-staff file (I have drums in mine, as the Setup Wizard doesn't use my drum map settings) and add staves to it using Staff Tool, Staff Menu>Add new staves using Setup Wizard. You don't get the page automatically formatted as you do when you start from zero, but all the instruments show up correctly, and you get to inherit ALL your settings.
When I asked MakeMusic about this, they told me that the Setup Wizard was never intended to be used by pros, who were expected to have thier own templates that they tweaked to their own standards. But they DID add more pro features to the Setup Wizard in the last version. Ask about this one to be included, and if they get enough requests, they will include it.
Christopher
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