On 26.10.2006 Noel Stoutenburg wrote:
I've got a couple of items with figured bass that I eventually intend to set in Finale. When I get to these, I expect to follow the suggestion in the Finale Users guide about using the facilities of the Chord tool to try to implement the figured bass. I expect that this will involve developing new chord libraries, and if there is a good tutorial on this, I have yet to find it. More daunting, I don't know of anyone who has been happy with the results that they have obtained setting Figured Bass in any method. Intuitively, it seems to me that the chord tool is probably the way to go, but I suspect those most knowledgeable about the chord tool have are least interested in figured bass, and those most interested in figured bass are perhaps among the least interested in the chord tool. One of the reasons in favor of my using the chord tool, is that the chord tool will support playback while text blocks do not. While articulation and expression tools also affect playback,
I don't know if these tools can effectively manage figured bass.
If you are talking baroque figured bass, with special symbols like
crossed out numbers etc, forget the chord tool, you would regret it. I
have tried this years ago, but it is a complete nightmare.
I have since only used lyrics, with a special font, not unlike Ansgar
Krause's Finale Figured Bass, but optimized in such a way that it can be
used left alligned, allowing to enter things like
6 5
4 3
under one note using hard spaces.
Your best bet in my opinion is to either follow Ansgar's instructions
and use his font, or design your own (in a font editor).
I bought 2k in May, and 2k1 came out in August) that Finale does not have more meta data designed in than it does.
Write to MM and request more fields, like I have several times. This
would also allow an easier integration of house styles in Finale.
Johannes
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