There's one (antiquated?) school of thought that sets the stem of the middle line based on melodic line. If it's going up, the stem is flipped up. You can play around with the Mid-line Stem Direction plug-in it follows the rules of that school of thought...
> -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of dhbailey > Sent: Tuesday, August 29, 2006 5:01 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [Finale] slur question > > dc wrote: > > John Howell écrit: > >>> How does one get a decent looking slur between, say, A and B in > >>> eighth notes in G clef (i.e. when the first note has its > stem upwards > >>> and the second downwards)? > >> > >> Reverse the stem on the B? > > > > I thought of that, of course, and saw that some publishers > do precisely > > that. But how kosher is it? > > > > Dennis > > Ross (and others) say, regarding stem direction, that for individual > notes, all those in the second space and lower have stems up, > all those > in the third space and higher have stems down, and notes on > the middle > line can go either way. > > The majority of notes on the middle line go down, in my > experience, but > if it will make for more elegant notation, I've seen a lot which have > stems up. > > So as for being kosher, John's answer is perfectly fine. > > > -- > David H. Bailey > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > _______________________________________________ > Finale mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale > _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
