It's true that in this case there is something to do by placing a bigger value. Richard's solution works only if that setting is applied to all measures of a system. Another way to do this would be to not let the first measure exceed 1000 EVPUs. I think we will all agree that there will always be a workaround to make a spacing setting that works on a few measures at a certain place in a score. In Dejan pdf on MM's site, it is obvious that the default music spacing of Score is far superior than all other examples. I would hope that Finale's global values for music spacing give us better results without having to tweaking it. There is already a lot of things to tweak anyway to make it look fine generally. If the minimum distance between items was ignored when it is not needed (when spacing is loose enough), it would already be a good start. Ledger lines spacing is also the cause of ridiculously too much space added, much more than necessary. Look at one measure of sixteenth notes on-staff, and the same with ledger line and you'll see how ridiculous it is. Even if there is lots of room to completely ignore adding space to avoid collsion of ledger lines, Finale adds it and the two measure are of a much too different length.
Anyway, it's one of my biggest bug with Finale for years, but I see that most people accomodate themselves pretty well with what Finale does, so I don't have much hope for MakeMusic to improve that area of Finale.

Éric

Le 06-09-05 à 20:03, Richard Yates a écrit :

<http://forum.makemusic.com/default.aspx?f=5&m=161961> &m=161961



I looked at your file and changed the 'minimum distance between items' to a

larger number (like 60)  and got better spacing of the two measures.


Richard Yates


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