This post is a few months old, but I happened to come across it today when clearing out old messages I missed.
On Apr 13, 2012, at 11:05 AM, Jamin Hoffman wrote: > I am trying to put fermatas over whole rests in a score (MacFin 2012a); I > insert real whole notes, change them to "real" whole rests, and then put a > fermata over the rest. So far, everything is fine. If I try to copy that > into the measures below it, however, the fermatas flip to underneath the > measure. If I put something into one of the other measures in the stack, > then the fermatas flip. If I try to edit the linked part, the fermatas flip. > > Is there a fix for this, or is there something obvious I am missing? I saw a few responses, but no one explained what's really going on here. The important thing to recognize here is that the fermata is flipping it is because the REST is flipping. Just as every note has a stem direction up or down, every rest has a "stem direction" direction as well. The only difference is that because the rest has no stem you can't actually see it changing. But it does change, and it behaves exactly like a note would: adding layer 2 will cause stem directions in layer 1 to flip to stem-up, you can deliberately flip stem direction using L in speedy or whatever, etc. So if your fermatas are flipping it's because your rests are flipping, and if you flip the rests back the fermatas will go back, too. Better yet, you can redefine the articulation. If the fermata is going back and forth when the stem flips, its position must be defined as "Always on note side" or "Auto note/stem side". Maybe that's the default, but I don't think it's most useful. I do use articulations for fermatas (as opposed to an expression) but my main articulation is defined to be always above the note. And then I have a separate fermata articulation defined as always below, for use on those occasions when I really do want it below. The whole situation is a little odd, but once you understand the logic it makes sense. It's confusing because you can't actually see a rest's "stem direction", but it's not actually buggy. mdl _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
