I have never, in all my years using Finale, checked the box for
including expressions in spacing, and I can't think of a circumstance
where I'd want to. Imagine a measure-long thirty-second-note run
beginning with a "fff" expression -- would anyone seriously entertain
the idea of increasing the space between the first two notes so that
the last "f" doesn't fall partially under the second note? Or what if
the run is also marked "furioso" -- should the second note begin after
the "o"? Well, that's what including expressions in music spacing does.
I'm surprised to hear anyone defending this "feature." It was worse
than useless.
Cheers,
- Darcy
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On 7 Jun 2009, at 1:25 PM, David W. Fenton wrote:
In reality, I can think of a lot of cases where I wouldn't want
expressions to change the music spacing. It's kind of like the old
lyrics problem -- in 8th-note melismas, the first two notes are too
far apart because the spacing algorithms allocate all the space for
the syllable to the first note of the melisma, even though the
syllable applies to one or more following notes, and there's no need
to allocate that extra space. Expressions can be like that (e.g.,
"cres."), so not accounting for them wouldn't be the biggest
disaster.
Maybe I'm overreacting after all.
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David W. Fenton http://dfenton.com
David Fenton Associates http://dfenton.com/DFA/
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