On 9/14/2012 8:11 PM, Stephen Cronin wrote: > Hello List, > > In FinMac 2012b I'm trying to create an ana crusis/pick-up for an excerpt in > the middle of an exam paper for my students. The first example has voice and > piano; the second which needs the ana crusis is piano only with the voice > staff hidden. The Mirror Tool placeholder dialogues work as usual but the > placeholder doesn't appear. (I have tried with the empty staff both hidden > and visible.) > > I have used the workaround (changed and hidden metre for the ana crusis) but > am curious as to why the Mirror Tool seems to be misbehaving. >
Has the mirror tool ever not misbehaved? It seems that it is the least-discussed tool in Finale because nobody can get it to work very well. I'm curious as to why you would be using the mirror tool to create this example -- how would that help with an anacrusis (it's one word by the way)? The only way I've ever read about or used for creating a pickup is by manipulating the meter -- create one that, for example, says 1/8 for an anacrusis in a work which is in 4/4 and in the time signature dialogue selecting More Options and then defining the Time Signature For Display to be 4/4, and then in the measure after the anacrusis changing the meter to be 4/4, which won't display since it's not a change from what was displayed previously so there's no need to hide it. Or am I misunderstanding the problem? -- David H. Bailey [email protected] _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
