On Feb 23, 2007, at 5:42 PM, Aaron Sherber wrote:
[answering Dan Lindblom
At 08:10 PM 2/23/2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>I was told to click the Staff Tool and double-click the staff,
then in the
>"Items to Display" section to uncheck "stems" and click OK. BUT--in
>my version
>of Finale 2002 there is no check-box marked "stems."
Really? Sounds odd, but I don't have Fin02 here to check.
I have both v2k2 and v2k4 installed right now, and I can confirm
this. Stems does not appear among Items to Display in v2k2, but it
does appear in v2k4.
>I can remove the stems by going to the "Special Tools Tool" Custom
Stem Tool,
>selecting the stems, and shortening each to the position of the
notehead.
>(Double-clicking a stem in this situation does not open the Shape
Selection
>Dialog Box, so I can't go this route).
Again, that's just plain odd, unless this behavior has also changed
since 2002. When I select the Custom Stem Tool in Fin07 and then
click a measure, each note in that measure gets a handle. Double-
clicking the handle gets me the Shape Selection dialog, and then I
can pick a blank shape.
What you (Aaron) describe is how I've always made stems disappear in
v2k2. Note that we're replacing the stem with a blank shape (using
the Custom Stem Tool). Dan's description sounds more like shortening
the stems with the Stem Length tool. The Custom Stem Tool requires
changing stems measure at a time, which is a bit of a nuisance, but
it's still much better than the Stem Length Tool where you have to
drag or arrow-nudge each stem individually.
If you want to get rid of all stems in the piece, you can go to
Document Options | Stems, and set all stem lengths to 0.
In v2k2, the stem length settings are listed under Document Options >
Music Options. Note that -- in either version -- you have to set
both normal stem length and shortened stem length to zero. If you
set just the normal stem length, you'll get stem stubs extending to
the center line.
Another way to make all stems in a document disappear is to set the
stem line thickness to zero. That setting is on Document Options >
Lines in v2k2. (It's on the Stems page in newer versions.)
Sounds to me like TGTools is the best option, assuming it's good for
v2k2.
mdl
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