George,
Actually, the best solution might be to use the Bach font, as someone
(Johannes?) suggested. If you don't need the actual typeface of
Maestro, creating the expression in the Bach font would be the
easiest, and the font is free. It has half-beamed eighths in it.
Christopher
On 15-May-07, at 3:58 PM, George Ports wrote:
Thanks Christopher.............I'll read more on Shape Designer.
George
----- Original Message ----- From: "Christopher Smith"
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Subject: Re: [Finale] Dotted Quarter Notes
On 15-May-07, at 2:50 PM, George Ports wrote:
I need a dotted quarter note as an indicator above the staff over
a quarter rest that is in the staff. I could type the quarter
note (Maestro) and then add a period for the dot but, was hoping
for an easier way.
Make new text expression. Make the font Maestro 24. Type q, then
period. Done. What could be easier?
If you want the dot higher (I might) then select it and adjust
the baseline in the Text menu. You can make it farther away by
adding spaces in between of varying point sizes (darn Finale to
heck for making routine kerning adjustments such a kludge!)
Now I'm having trouble creating an eighth note that has a
(beam) extention instead of a flag. I can see how to do it at
the end of a couple of eighths but, not just one eighth. I
really searched a lot in the help section to no avail.
Yeah, this one is tougher. The beam is normally drawn as a line
in Finale, and it is not a character.
I would create this one as a Shape expression. Add a text
character q in Maestro font, then draw a line of appropriate
thickness for the beam. I always hate the Shape designer in
Finale, as it is so ungraceful and unforgiving. Read up on the
Shape Designer in the manual.
Christopher
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