Hi Mark, Hide the real barline. Hide the courtesy time signature. Add extra space at the end of the measure (Measure Attributes -> Extra Space at End). Add a graphic barline as an expression. Add both the 6/2 and the 3/1 time signatures as expressions.
Cheers, - DJA ----- WEB: http://www.secretsocietymusic.org On 21 May 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 > _______________________________________________ > Finale mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
