>Is there a better way to enter the music than entering it into a >normal staff system and copy/pasting it into a TAB staff?
Not really. >I found a bend sign, how about hammer on / pull off? Or tapping? There are lots of different styles for guitar notation, it really depends on what you want. Most publishers use slurs for hammer on pull off. With regard to tapping you'd have to tell us what notation system it is you're trying to use or copy. >How do I enter "x"-notes for muted strings? I like my X noteheads to be _exactly_ the same in the staff and the tab, so I make them as the same character font and size and make them as six different shape expressions (single and then banks of 2 to 6, I don't want to place 6 individual ones to make a muted chord!). These can b placed quickly with metatools set to snap into the correct position horizontally, leaving you to just set the vertical position. That being said no doubt there are a dozen ways of doing it. You'll notice that you can delete the default X's that are created in the tab caused by dragging the staff notes containing x note heads down to the tab by using the note mover tool - Finale creates these weird default ones but I've never liked them. This is something Finale could seriously improve on. >I wanted to convert a >guitar tune from guitar pro to Finale, but i had to give up... Sorry never heard of it. The whole of Chapter 36 covers guitar notation (I'm in Finale 2005 at the moment), but you're right, it's not much of a tutorial. I'm often around on FinaleIRC (see my signature) it may be easier to catch me on there in this case, otherwise I could see some of these queries going on for days and days, nothing wrong with here and it's good for the archive, but I don't have a great deal of time at the moment to go into step by step explanations (big project on!) but you're welcome to pick my brains on stuff like this if I'm about. -- Simon Troup Digital Music Art Real-time Finale discussion - http://www.finaleirc.com _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
