At 01:15 PM 7/18/2007 -0400, David W. Fenton wrote: >What bothers me other than the overall not great look of the music >font (and many outstandingly bad details, like the rests I mentioned) >is that the spacing of the notes in the flute line is so *bad* -- >it's neither metric nor set by the widths of the characters. Any of >Finale's default spacing algorithms looks better than that, so it >bothers me that two hours of work on the Sibelius page produces such >widely varying spacing. It's not that it doesn't replicate yours, but >that it isn't internally consistent with itself (which yours actually >is, and which Finale would make happen automatically).
It doesn't, though. You can't use Finale's spacing algorithms on this page. The flute solo and violin solo are all created in a single horizontal measure, skipping down into the other instrumental parts. Each long measure (which is broken up by graphical barlines) contains a different number of notes as well. These are padded with invisible rests. If you strip away the staff styles, delete the graphical barlines and show the rests, you see only four measures on the whole page: 37-38, normal measures; 39, invisible; and 40, which contains pseudo-measures 39-68 flute (39-44 fl; 45-50 ob; 51-56 cl; 57-62 bcl; 63-68 bsn) and 39-74 violin (39-43 perc2; 45-50 vn1; 51-56 vn2; 57-63 vla; 64-67 vcl; 68-74 cb). So applying the spacing algorithm would space all the "real" measures with respect to each other, vertically -- a hopeless situation. You'll see on mine, for example, that I didn't finish the hand spacing on the first measure of the solo flute part. That spacing, with the rests all spread out, is just wrong. Since this is a note-proofing copy for the composer, I'll finesse the spacing later. Heaven forfend I should defend Sibelius output, but in this case, it's more flexible than I expected -- which is the point of it being created, and I very much appreciate the effort. Dennis _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
