Thanks, Mark. Sorry to be slow in acknowledging your response - usually there are more than one, and I acknowledge/discuss them all at once.
Your method is better than what I was doing, but can I trust those two items will stay together in proper position? Raymond Horton On Wed, Nov 9, 2011 at 3:00 AM, Mark D Lew <markd...@earthlink.net> wrote: > On Nov 8, 2011, at 8:19 PM, Raymond Horton wrote: > >> What is the best way to indicate a time signature of 6/8 followed by >> 3/4 in parenthesis? > > My default plan would be: > > 1. Check "use a different time signature for display". > > 2. Pick "composite" for the display time sig, and set it up as 6/8 + 3/4. > > 3. Under Document Options > Time Signature change the plus character to a > fixed space. (I use opt-space on Mac, gives better spacing than an ordinary > space; it shows as 202 on Finale's character chart.) > > 4. Then set up the parentheses as a text expression. > > This work in most cases, though it can cause spacing difficulties if one > falls at the end of the system. It's also a problem if you need a real > composite time signature with a plus elsewhere in the piece. > > mdl > _______________________________________________ > Finale mailing list > Finale@shsu.edu > http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale > _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
