On 13 Jul 2005 at 23:12, 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. > > Well, it doesn't work that way in Fin2k5. I am wondering whether you > are actually _unlocking_ them, because I am pretty sure automatic > locking had been introduced by 2k3, which I believe you are using. I > don't have 2k3 installed any more, but can someone else investigate > this? Just adding a cautionary should lock it. If you follow this with > option-* you effectively _unlock_ them again. Am I on the right track?
I'm definitely paying attention to the * to know if it's locked or not. I'm not sure what's going on now, but I can't seem to recreate the problem. I'll try to remember to post back to the list the next time I encounter it. -- 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
