Dear Doug, I always use rhythmic notation with the stems down (and stem lengths adjusted to -36 evpus) and have had no difficulties. I set this in the staff styles dialog. I don't know of another place to set this, so I can't tell if that option is what's causing you trouble.
I don't usually share Finale files with others, but on the rare occasion that I need to do that, it is usually with another person who has Bill's fonts. (For just sending music, I use pdfs.) I'd be miserable going back to the stock Finale slashes and rhythmic notation. I imagine that it might be possible to create other chord symbol solutions within Finale, though I'm happy not to need to confront that task. If you provide more details about how you define rhythmic notation and where the trouble shows up, I will try to duplicate it and see what I can discover. Chuck On Nov 1, 2010, at 8:27 AM, Doug Walter wrote: > Since this subject came up, it reminded me of a couple things I've been > meaning to ask. One is regarding sharing documents that use the chord symbol > font with others who don't own it, and the other has to do with stem > direction in rhythmic notation. > > When I know a score I've created is going to someone else to format and > extract parts, to be safe I don't use any fonts that aren't "native" to > Finale, but I really hate going back to the look of the default slash and > rhythmic notation as well as the chord symbols especially. I remember that > Bill had actually specified that it was OK with him to provide the fonts to > someone else in such a situation, provided one didn't also include the > detailed instructions on how to use them, so the recipient could presumably > simply install the relevant fonts in their system and be able to view and > print the document as intended. But it has always seemed that one is asking > for trouble by doing this (not legal trouble, just complications), and > there's no guarantee that everything ends up looking the same on the other > person's system as it does on mine, so I haven't pursued it. > > The other question is whether anyone has had any luck when using Bill's > font(s) for rhythmic notation in setting the stem direction to down instead > of up. It seems that sometimes I can get it to work, but often if I set stem > direction to down (in both places where it's possible to do so), I end up > with no stems at all and flags displaced - a real mess. I'm not talking about > Bill's method of creating another staff for rhythmic notation that would > eventually be superimposed on the original staff in order to get smaller > slashes and stems in rhythmic notation; I'm talking about just using it in > the "main" staff. > > While I don't particularly mind the look of stems up, it's not the way I've > always written it by hand, and of course once you add chord symbols and > articulations (which for some reason always get placed too high vertically > and have to be dragged down), things get crowded above the staff. > > I know there are some folks on the list who use these things regularly, and > I'd welcome any advice or perhaps an approach or setting that I've missed > along the way. FWIW, I'm using Finale 2010 (Mac). > > Thanks, > Doug > >>> >>> >>>> Hi everyone, >>>> >>>> I recently purchased Finale Productivity 5.0 from NPC Imaging, and I >>>> have a few questions for the group. > > > _______________________________________________ > Finale mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale Chuck Israels 1310 NW Naito Parkway #807 Portland, OR 97209-3162 phone: (503) 926-7952 cell phone: (360) 201-3434 www.chuckisraels.com _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
