On Oct 18, 2006, at 6:58 AM, Dennis Bathory-Kitsz wrote:
I did mean kerning. Finale doesn't appear to respect kerning pairs. For
example, Times New Roman has hundreds of kerning pairs (over 100 in the
original extended ASCII version, and nearly 1000 in the
multiple-language
version). But Finale doesn't respect them, so text looks pretty
awkward.
I've put side-by-side examples of the "WA" kerning pair in Pagemaker
and
Finale. You can see how Finale fails to kern them:
You're right that Finale doesn't implement the automatic kerning that's
built into sophisticated fonts these days.
If you want to do the kerning yourself -- like we did in the old days
-- the tracking feature in Finale can be used for kerning, but it's
clumsy and somewhat tedious. You have to go in and select the pairs
yourself and assign separate tracking numbers. If you've got two
adjacent pairs you have to do a little bit of math, though I don't
recall the details. I remember it was possible to get the result you
want, but it's not entirely intuitive.
But of course the problem is that tracking is available for text blocks
only, and not in lyrics, so for lyrics you're just shit out of luck. I
did generally do basic kerning in text blocks, particularly in the
large titles and all-cap subtitles.
mdl
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