> >- The shortcut you describe does not go to a specific predefined bit of > >text. It only opens a text cursor into which you then have to type the > >characters that you want. > > Well, of course - you're not always going to want them same fingering are > you? I would never want to have to change a default fingering, I would > always want to enter my own.
I want different shortcut keys for specific fingering numbers. I do appreciate your trying to help with this Ken but you really do not seem to be following what I am trying to do very closely. Perhaps you are not familiar with Finale. > >- Such text expressions (as contrasted with articulations) do not allow > >predefined precise positioning relative to the notehead. > > > >So, one fingering number always requires: > > > > 1. click the notehead, > > 2. press the shortcut key, > > 3. type the character, > > 4. always grab and drag the character with the mouse. > > No, not always. You decide what the spacing is that you want to be the > default. If that is intelligently chosen by the user, it should be an > "occasionally drag or nudge" as below. The options in Staff Styles allow only left, right and center for horizontal positioning and which staffs for vertical positioning. I see no way of positioning text precisely with reference to the notehead. > >With Finale I just: > > > > 1. press the metatool key while clicking the note, > > 2. occasionally drag or nudge the character. > > > >Last, it does not seem that respacing will correct collisions of notes and > >these fingering numbers. If there really is no way except by manually > >positioning notes then Sibelius is dozens of times slower. > > > >What am I still missing? > > > I don't see "dozens of times slower" at all. If I have to manually adjust the position of most notes before the ones with fingering numbers than it will be dozens of times slower. > You've combined 1 + 2 in the > Sib example above into 1 in the Finale example - I don't see a big > difference there, click and type shortcut is very fast. It is two actions in sequence instead of two that are simultaneous. That makes it about half as fast. I also did not mention that, in Sibelius, in order to drag the text once entered you apparently have to click again to exit from the text cursor so there is yet another step. By comparison in Finale after the symbol is placed it is already selected for dragging or nudging. > Does the Metatool > key always give you the same fingering? How do you specify different > fingerings? In Finale once the Articulation Tool is selected then my keyboard is programmed so that different keys produce different specific articulations. I have about 25 of them. One key = one symbol. It seems to me Sib step 3 has to be in the Finale example > somewhere. No it is not. Each shortcut key places the symbol. > As for text positioning, there is the plug-in "Reset text > position" which will do a whole passage in one pass. Reset to what? Fingerings need to be associated positionally with notes. What does 'Reset text position' do? Richard _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
