Many thanks Christopher, I never would have thought to use same meter
displayed in different ways you opened my mind wide!
I hope to read from Dennis, too.
Marcello
Christopher Smith ha scritto:
On Feb 25, 2009, at 9:59 AM, Marcello Noia wrote:
I have a jazz tune in two staves system.
The first (melody) is in 5+3 quarters, the second (bass) is in 3+3+2
quarters.
I have set the second stave to have independent time signature but
the problem is
in page layout, because I would want to set a different measure
width for the second staff
in order to fit with the first one, so the 5+3 could have the same
global width as the 3+3+2.
It seems that it is not possible to set different widths in a system,
am I right?
Thank you.
Yes, this is an inherent weakness in Finale's file structure, from my
understanding of it. Finale works according to measures.
What I suggest is setting the tune in 8/4, but change the time
signature to show 3+3+2 in one staff and 5+3 in the other using
independent time signatures. Then add in the missing barlines in each
staff as expressions. The new version of Finale even comes with
auto-positioning barlines as expressions, under Miscellaneous. You may
have to open up some extra space to allow for the fake barlines, and
your measure numbers will never be correct, but that is a small price
to pay. ONce you have put them in in one measure, you can copy them
easily to all the other measures, but only BEFORE you put any other
expressions into your score (otherwise you copy them too!)
You didn't ask, but I would put in fake dotted barlines instead of
solid, so that only the solid barlines will show where the barlines
align between parts.
Dennis B-K is an expert at this; he may chime in with some better or
more detailed advice.
Christopher
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