On 13 Jul 2005 at 22:27, Johannes Gebauer wrote: > David W. Fenton schrieb: > > > > 2. cautionary accidentals > > I thought they were locked in versions since about Fin2k. You can tell > by a "*" appearing in the Speedy frame when the cursor is on that note > (and pitch). This is pretty stable. In earlier versions you had to > manually invoke this condition by pressing option-* (on Mac).
The problem is that when you lock them (I lock them all) they *unlock* as soon as you change any notes in the measure. This means that you have to leave locking cautionary accidentals as the absolute last step of editing the notes. I prefer to do the note entry in one pass, and if in a later editing pass I see a problem with the note entry (usually, needing to add something that was omitted or correct an incorrect pitch), I change it then, but that removes the locked cautionary accidental. Finale has always worked this way. And it has always been an annoyance for me, since it's Finale saying "I know how it should look better than you do." > > 3. manual beaming breaks > > I think from 2k4 or 2k5 on manual beaming > breaks don't get destroyed that easily anymore. It still happens, but > there seems to be some kind of improvement, which I believe was > mentioned in some update blurp. Perhaps worth investigating. I don't quite understand the reasoning behind overriding manual beam breaks. And I also see cases in WinFin2K3 where non-manual beam breaks get retained when the music changes, when the beam breaks should be changing. I can't recreate the exact steps, but I've seen it happen several times. Perhaps the next time it happens to me, I'll post about it to see if it's something fixed in later versions. -- David W. Fenton http://www.bway.net/~dfenton David Fenton Associates http://www.bway.net/~dfassoc All non-quoted content (c) David W. Fenton, all rights reserved _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
