On Nov 14, 2005, at 8:54 AM, John Howell wrote:
Andrew is quite correct that it is a standard devise, and it's a shame Finale hasn't implemented a way to enter it without kludgy workarounds. I always take it as meaning an unmeasured pause, but one of less that a full bar's length. A fermata over a whole rest, on the other hand, indicates a Grand Pause with a length of more than a full bar's length. But I don't know how others would interpret it.
That matches my interpretation as well. I agree that it would be nice for Finale to implement this. I understand that the idea of time existing outside of a measure element goes against its data structure, but they could still invent some sort of tag-on to accommodate it.
Lacking that, a plug-in could be devised that would automate one of the procedures outlined in this thread.
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