Insert the time signature as 6/2 + 3/1 and then go into the time
signature settings in doc options and change the + to a blank
character in the font and you will see the time as you want it. I've
done this very same thing for Bernstein's Overture to WSS 4/4 + 2/4
stuff. You have to set the measures after the initial to the correct
time signatures and hide them but otherwise you get the desired look
you are wanting. You will have to add the Parenthesis yourself.
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J. Scott Jones
Band/Orchestra Director/Freelance Trumpet Player-Teacher/Music Engraver
On May 21, 2010, at 3:04 AM, Mark D Lew wrote:
On May 20, 2010, at 11:30 PM, Darcy James Argue wrote:
No, it won't. Or if it does, the "kludge" is no kludge at all, and
is unrelated to "Update Layout."
Hmm, maybe it's not "update layout" then. Let me be more specific.
I've got a piece with a lot of time signature changes and one of
them has a parenthetic; that is, it changes to 6/2 but right after
the 6/2 it shows 3/1 in parentheses. I know of no way to draw that
in the regular time signature, so I've just done it as regular 6/2
and I've created an expression to show the (3/1). I then respace to
create extra room after the time signature to fit my expression in.
So far, so good, except that this time signature change happens to
fall on a system break, which I can't avoid. Therefore I need the
parenthesized time signature to appear at the end of the prior
system as well. Now it's a problem because that space isn't part of
any measure. Finale just ends the previous measure early with only
just enough room for the time signature to fit after the barline.
Therefore I trick Finale into ending the measure early: I add space
to the previous measure, update the layout, and then remove the
extra space without updating the layout. This works perfectly on
the screen, and I thought it would work perfectly over all, but I
find that as soon as I print, Finale sees through my stratagem and
moves the barline to the right anyway, pushing my parenthesized
expression out into the right margin.
There are more elaborate kludges I could resort to, but they are
problematic, in part because my client cares about the MusicXML
code, not just the printed look, so it's an issue to do things like
add an invisible measure.
If anyone has a better idea, I'd love to hear it. The basic problem
is that I need to created space after the rightmost barline in a
system that is showing time signature at the end of the system.
Is there somewhere I can define the time signature numeral
characters? If I can blank out the plus and some digits I may be
able to fake something with a composite time signature.
mdl
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