On 24 Oct 2006 at 9:08, Ken Moore wrote: > "David W. Fenton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > My guess is that it's a holdover from the days when multimeasure > > rests actually represented the number of rests involved. That meant > > in 4/4 two measures of rest would be represented by a double whole > > rest (i.e., a block filling an entire space rather than just half of > > it), four by two-lines filled in, etc. Since we've abandoned that > > for the modern multimeasure rest symbol with a number over it, I > > don't see why the standard couldn't be just to use a whole rest. > > Your "we" doesn't include me. I use the old mixture for up to 12 > measures, and am always pleased to see it in parts from which I play. > They are especially helpful in French music (Franck and Saint=Saens > symphonies in recent memory) in editions that make 3 and 5 almost > indistinguishable.
If you have that problem in Finale, then you need to use a different font for the numbers. I, too, have encountered numbers in old engravings that I could only decipher by counting the double whole rests, but that's just not an issue in modern engraving, ever, so I don't see any point in using it. -- 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
