Okay I'm confused. I was under the impression that either the concert key of Eric's piece overall was C major or else the piece as a whole had no key signature. He said Alto Sax had 3 sharps and Bb trumpet 2, which is consistent with C Major (or no key sig). For that case, Chromatic Transposition is sufficient and there is no need to set any Independent elements in any staff's attributes. In fact doing so may just make your life harder, so Eric should by all means ignore that link he cited.
If the key as whole has a key signature (e.g., the piano part has a key signature), but there are transposiing instruments for which you would like to suppress the key signature, there is a procedure that will do it flawlesly for you, but it is not the one in the link Eric cited, and it does not involve Chromatic Transposition. (The approach Eric cited gets close but it is not perfect.) Eric, let me know if this is what you need. If so, it would be easiest for me to describe the solution if you provide specifics: what key is the piece and on which specific transposing instrument(s) do you want to suppress key signatures? _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
