On 5 May 2006 at 6:40, Éric Dussault wrote: > Le 06-05-05 à 04:26, Johannes Gebauer a écrit : > > > My ties do look almost like slurs, and tweaking a dashed slur to > > look like a tie is not difficult. > > Tell me your trick to get a tapered dotted slur, because it's so > easy to adjust the positioning of slurs to look like tie and I > don't think it is what David was meaning. Or maybe it is just that > a docuement full of dotted ties would be time consuming.
I have just been editing music that comes from sources that notate tied notes rather haphazardly, tieing only one note of a chord, which means that all notes should be tied (this is clear from musical context). I would love to have a dotted tie so that playback would be correct. Instead, I'm using the editor's notation of putting a slash through the ties that are editorial. This is something of a pain, and I haven't yet decided how to make it look good, as if I put each slash through the center of each tie, they don't line up vertically, which looks bad. If I align them vertically, they don't all sit in the exact middle of the ties, which looks bad for different reasons. I use dashed slurs in place of ties only when I'm meaning to suggest an optional tie, or one that I'm not editorially certain belongs, but might. I use the default Finale tie settings (I'm using WinFin2K3), and matching that shape with a dashed tie is a pain. Thankfully, I have only a few of them. But what I'd really like, which is where this all started, is the ability to create a real tie that is drawn in the same shape as a tie and has the same playback effect as a tie, but is dashed. As long as ties and slurs remain distinct things in Finale's UI, both need the dashed option. -- David W. Fenton http://dfenton.com David Fenton Associates http://dfenton.com/DFA/ _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
