At 08:00 PM 7/19/2007 -0500, Randolph Peters wrote: >This is really kludgy, but I think there are 2 ways to turn fonts 90 >degrees. Neither are all that much fun. > >1. Put the text into a Smart Shape Custom Line (or lines) without any >line and then drag the thing vertically.
This works, but more than doubles the effort required. Not that much fun indeed, because it requires visually sussing a tangent. If you looked at the original, you see that what is really required (and this goes for the Stockhausen "Refrain" as well, and hundreds of other compositions) are notes which can follow a curve, both stemmed notes or unstemmed ones. In this case, if the notehead could be the arrowhead (which it can) and be turned 90 degrees (which it can't), then only two kinds of lines would be needed -- #1 with a stem thickness and #2 with zero thickness. Starting at the origin, then, the noteheads would fall into place correctly along any curved line, and the stem could be shortened later for #1 and made invisible later for #2. Heck, it would even play back. If staves could be made to follow vector curves, even better. Problem solved. (And I've said before that Finale, being a vector-based program, should have enabled this on all objects 15 years ago; $50 graphics programs do it). >2. Paste a graphic that is actually an encapsulated postscript file >that contains the instructions to turn the included text 90 degrees >or any other angle for that matter. Below are two examples of that >kind of instruction from 1998. (Finale 97!) Amazing. Of course, it won't work effectively because as you say EPS graphics only present as a box, not an image. With the hundreds of notes in that piece, it would be impossible to track them. I'm keeping your email, though. Never know when those little EPS bits will come in handy during desperate late nights of score & Scotch. Dennis _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
