Hi Chuck, Yes the positioning of repeat texts is old-school a bit. Something like a $ that one returns to is LEFT aligned, so if you enter zero in the Horizontal Positioning box, it will align with the beginning of MUSIC, not the left barline. Something like a DS al Coda or To Coda is RIGHT aligned, so a horizontal offset of zero should give you correct alignment with the RIGHT barline. In all cases, though, negative values offset LEFT from the default zero, while positive offsets RIGHT, just like a graph from Grade 9 trigonometry.
It's when you enter a non-zero position (or drag it left or right) and then the staff size changes from score to part, like just about always. Then it seems to go sideways, but it actually works as designed. The offset is in REAL units, whereas you probably expect the offset to be scaled along with the staff. This means that if you enter a 30 EVPU offset (or drag it by that amount) in the score, it looks correct, but it ends up being to little or too much in the parts. I just enter horizontal positions as zeros, which is usually right for the parts, but I command-drag in the score so as not to change them for the parts. Before they fixed these, I entered my DSes as an expression, but then had to enter ANOTHER attached to a multimeasure rest in the part. I hid it everywhere (by command right-clicking in the part and unselecting Show) then I showed it just in the part (by right-clicking WITHOUT the command key, and selecting Show.) It gets easy once you know. Christopher On Sun Sep 16, at SundaySep 16 11:36 PM, Chuck Israels wrote: > Yes, Chris. Thank you. this requires more fussing than I am willing to do. > I think Finale should serve the needs of more modern notation practices > better - more easily and clearly than it does. I rarely encounter this kind > of need, but I can understand why others would need this - perhaps often. > > I also tried to figure out how to use the text repeats you suggested (repeat > tool repeats) instead of expressions. Of course there are playback > advantages as well as the fact that they will show up at the end of a MM > rest, but I am having the devil of a time trying to figure out the > positioning. They don't seem to be set up in relation to right and left bar > lines as expressions are - at least so it appears to me. Am I missing > something? > > I may have to bite the bullet and enter duplicate expression repeats and > hide/show according to need. That too seems kludgy to me - as does the > widowed measures that show up when MM rests break to show the repeat > expressions. I don't think FInal handles this well, and I'd sure like to see > it improved in 2014 - or whenever they release a real upgrade. This is not > bells and whistles to me - it's an everyday need. > > Thanks for all the help. > > Chuck _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
