>I do prefer your extended ledger lines on the seconds, but the >preference is not so strong that I'd go to the trouble of stretching >them out one by one. Is there a simple global setting for this?
ha! you wish. 2 sizes of extensions as shape expressions, one for the outer of multiple ledger lines (same length as the default, see 55 for ex.) and a shorter one where the outer note is on the first ledger line, here it does not need to be quite as long as the default, just needs to extend barely beyond the note (51, for ex.). this score is a bit extreme for this problem, but it wouldn't take very long in general to do it. >I also noticed the thicker ledger lines that David and Marcello >mentioned. I personally dislike these, but I have been made to >understand that there is a tradition of having ledger lines slightly >thicker than staff lines... yep. i went from hating the anemic ledger lines in the finale default files to having them the same as the stafflines to having them thicker than the staff lines. for two reasons: this is an accepted standard and i felt in any case it makes the score much better looking. i have found in general that several types of lines in scores done since the advent of notation software are toooo thin. i remember the earlier default templates producing scores that hardly looked like anything you would find in a music library. as far as my argument for thicker lines for graphic reasons goes, a musician spends many hours with a score (or at least that is our hope) and if that time spent is pleasant (on the eyes and mind) then the musician is better disposed to play the music the notation represents better. so there is a good amount of graphic design considerations in my work as well. one more thing about the thicker ledger lines, they can sometimes seem thicker in relation to the stafflines than they really are in PDF on-screen vioewing, i recommend printing to a laser printer (and on 100-120g off-white or light cream paper), since this is the output my prefs are built for. _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
