On 28 Oct 2005 at 9:56, Matthew Van Brink wrote: > * Finale2006 PC > * for two subsequent systems > * create a slur between a note in layer1 in the first system to a note > in layer2 in the second system * the slur does not appear on the > first system, only on the bottom system. I guess I have to go back > to using Finale2005 so that I'm not wasting my time making imperfect > scores in Finale2006 :( Okay, thanks for taking care of this > promptly.
Can someone explain to me the musical circumstances in which a slur between layers makes any sense at all? Seems to me that if layers are used to indicate individual voices, a slur from one voice to another makes little sense. I have always felt that many Finale users deprecate Voice1/Voice2, perhaps because of memories of the days when you couldn't attach articulations to notes in voice 2, and use layers for things that are much, much harder with layers than they are with Voice1/Voice2. Yes, of course, V1/V2 has its drawbacks for certain kinds of situations, but layers have a different set of drawbacks of their own -- you choose whichever is most appropriate for the context. And I'm not convinced that I can think of a context where you should be using different layers for two notes that are slurred. Whether or not Finale should be *able* to draw the slurs correctly across a system break is a different question. I think it should, though I think it's something that I wouldn't want the Finale programming crew wasting a lot of time addressing, since it's not something that I see as justifiably necessary in any context I can think of, at least not any context for which there are no good alternative methods without the problem (methods that probably should have been used in the first place, in my opinion). -- David W. Fenton http://www.bway.net/~dfenton David Fenton Associates http://www.bway.net/~dfassoc _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
