With regards to proper long slurs, Finale can't do them, and it is perhaps the only remaining missing feature that cannot be achieved practically by any means using any workaround. We simply have to live without right now (and apparently the foreseeable future, unless Sib. adds them). :-( The only desktop engraving program I've seen that had them was Score.
Whether you want them or not, whether you agree with Ted Ross or not, an engraving program should have them. Ted Ross (among a bare handful of others) defines some industry best-practices. You don't have to take his suggestions, of course, and many people choose to do some things differently. But a large number of very qualified people take a large number of his suggestions, so it is not wise to dismiss him out-of-hand. Of course long slur markings are quite distinguishable from staff lines, brackets, etc., because they are a different thickness (and continuously varying thickness), and they are not necessarily horizontal (any more than any other slur). Anyway, they usually appear outside the staff. They are essential for conserving vertical space, which is almost always at a premium. _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
