> Next go to "Menu or category" and choose "Keypad F-11 > articulations". Choose "fermata" and assign a key stroke or 2. > > Love to chat some more, but I have to go grocery shopping!
Thanks. I also got groceries. Lots of good fruit around here (Oregon) now. Okay. I am closer in my quest for a finger number. I defined a staff style, used this to redefine an existing articulation (I changed the fermata to a '4'), and got that articulation programmed to the 'F' key shortcut. Almost there! Problems remaining: ---'Erase background' in the staff style does not seem to carry over to the articulation. ---Vertical positioning in the staff style does not seem to carry over to the articulation although I have the horizontal about right. ---Even with horizontal positioning correct for most cases, sometimes it needs to be tweaked, but articulations cannot be dragged left and right as far as I can tell. (Actually it is worse than that. The fingering number is placed relative to the notehead and cannot be dragged to the left of a sharp sign. I could drag it down so it went behind the sharp and then could not grab it again to move or delete it.) ---Even though I have changed the name of the articulation to '4' from 'Fermata (pause)', that name does not change in the shortcuts menu. So if I changed articulation definitions for a whole bunch of existing articulations I would have to have keep track of what they all were in order to program the shortcuts. (Maybe that list resets when the program is rebooted, but I have not tried with the demo in case I would lose all I have changed so far.) ---There are not enough existing shortcut articulation slots to accommodate the fingerings and other signs that I need (and still keep the regular articulations that I would need). ---BIG PROBLEM: You cannot use more than one instance of an articulation on a chord. So if there is a guitar chord for which I want to have two '0' to show open strings Sibelius will not do it. I appreciate your patience and hope that this exchange can give others on the list some insight into Sibelius' capabilities and limits. Richard _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
