My recollection of chord spacing is that a chord taking up a lot of horizontal space wouldn't "ride" over the next item in the measure w/out a chord, but push it to the end of the space taken by that chord, similar to the way lyrics used to space.
I haven't tried including chords in spacing in a while and just tried it and chords wouldn't space at all. Not sure what that's about. Thanks, Don On Thu, Oct 4, 2012 at 9:00 AM, Jari Williamsson < [email protected]> wrote: > Is there any specific reason why you don't include chords in the music > spacing options? > > I think your solution of putting rests for spacing purposes is an > excellent solution. That gives you the ability to control the width and > chord placement quite well. If you need more space in some part of the > measure, insert rests at half the duration and put twice as many rest > for that part of the measure. > > > Best regards, > > Jari Williamsson > > > On 2012-10-04 15:14, Don Hart wrote: > > Now that chords can be attached without notation I'm wondering how others > > go about spacing measures that only have the staff style "slash notation" > > in them. If nothing else occurs in the measure stack, and with the > minimum > > meas. width set to zero, these measures are very squashed-looking. Bars > > with several changes can still a problem since I usually have chords > > unchecked in the music spacing prefs. > > > > I usually wind up doing what I had to do before chords could be attached > > independently and put rests in each measure to provide basic, consistent > > spacing (i.e., 4 quarter rests in each measure in 4/4). I copy this > > throughout while setting up and change as needed while scoring. Overall, > > pretty painless, but I was curious if someone knew a better way to handle > > this, like maybe a different minimum measure width or something else. > > > > Thanks, > > > > Don Hart > > _______________________________________________ > > Finale mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Finale mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale > _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
