Mark,
I hope you know that L flips the stem direction in Speedy Entry, and
locks it there.
As you found out, Reverse Stems reverses the side of the notehead the
stem is on, so it wouldn't help you here.
Christopher
On May 20, 2006, at 12:19 PM, Dennis Bathory-Kitsz wrote:
At 12:05 PM 5/20/06 -0400, Mark Q. Simos wrote:
I am in the middle of a piece for solo cello and am finding myself
frustrated in some extended double-stop passages where the melody is
played high on the string using as a drone an upper string sounding,
at times a unison, at times an upper, at times a lower tone. I would
like the notation to visibly show the two voices, with unisons
showing double note heads, and with repeating drone-string notes
beamed together, and slurs marked on the changing melody line. I've
explored various combinations of the Finale Special Tools menu to do
this but, though they seem to supply every arcane option one could
want, the tool is still getting in my way. Even when I try to force
direction on the beams of the melody line and then add the drone
lines in later, either as a second 'chord' tone or using split stems,
Finale seems to automatically switch the beaming between the voices
(and flip the slurs on me in the process) so that the result looks
jumbled and chaotic. The command to "reverse" stems seems to not help
as it attaches the stems to the "wrong" side of the notehead, not
really what I'm after. Any suggestions would be welcome - I really
have tried to explore the options on my own as best I could!
I *think* I understand what you want.
I do main entry in Speedy, so bear with me if you use another tool.
I just did a guitar piece for lots of double unisons, and I first put
in
(say) a D and then enter the E above on the same stem, and make it
double-flat. If you have a tie to add, do it now. Then tapping the "9"
key
will give you the enharmonic, and you have a double unison D. That will
then behave normally, with the heads on each side of the stem.
Beam your notes as appropriate. Speedy "L" will flip the stem. Use the
first note of the group to flip, so there's no conflict later if you
lost
track.
Enter the other layer, and re-flip beams as needed. Reverse any slurs
as
the last step. Most everythng should be in place now.
If you use reverse-stemming for anything, you can use a Special Tools
notehead mover to put the notehead where it belongs.
Is that what you were getting at? Perhaps you could post a sample few
measures on a website.
Dennis
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