On 1/14/2011 2:30 PM, Ryan wrote:
If you use a double whole rest in successive measures, will Finale create the appropriate multi-measure rest automatically?
No -- Finale only creates multi-measure rests automatically if the measures are completely empty. Finale's default "whole rests" are not considered to be items, but any rests entered by the user are items in the measure and so the program doesn't consider the measures to be empty.
Someone (Robert?) suggested that you could set the default "whole measure rest" that Finale places in empty measures to be a double-whole-rest, but if you have any sections where that wouldn't be appropriate you'd have problems.
We could of course lobby MakeMusic to change the way that Finale determines "empty" measures so that if the only thing in the measure is a rest it is "empty" for purposes of multi-measure rests. That way we could use anything we wanted for any specific "empty" measure and it would still be included in multi-measure rests.
-- David H. Bailey dhbai...@davidbaileymusicstudio.com _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
