This is a font annotation issue. Your font annotation file for Chord symbol font (that's the font for rhythmic notation) needs to be put in the right place for 2010. Not sure I remember where that is for 2010 (it's changed in 2011), but that is surely the problem. If you need to edit the FAN file for the Chord Symbol font, it's a pain in the neck, but can be done.
There are probably others who know more about this, but I can help work it out, if no one else has better (or more efficient) advice. Chuck On Nov 1, 2010, at 6:40 PM, Doug Walter wrote: > Thanks for answering, Chuck. It occurred to me that one possible cause is > having started a new score using an older one as a template. So who knows how > many incarnations this particular document has gone through? So I opened a > new document in 2010, added a staff and inputted some rhythmic notation and, > sure enough, it worked fine with stems down. Among other things, I guess this > is a good reminder to update my default document(s) with each new version; I > have to admit I haven't made a habit of doing that. > > I'm almost there. I got the stems shortened, but the final setting that I > seem to be missing is for ties. If I tie any notes in rhythmic notation, the > ties end up way above the staff. Oddly, if I flip them, they attach to the > notes where you'd expect, but as soon as I flip them back, they jump up about > half an inch. I looked at all the settings in Document Options > Ties but > haven't yet figured out what to change if anything. I'll keep experimenting. > > Thanks again for the help. > > Doug > > On Nov 1, 2010, at 2:42 PM, Chuck Israels wrote: > >> 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 > > > _______________________________________________ > Finale mailing list > Finale@shsu.edu > 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 Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
