Hi Don, Robert Puff just posted about this on his blog.
http://www.rpmseattle.com/of_note/finale-chord-symbol-spacing/ He has a trick with adding hard spaces to the chord symbol that hadn't occurred to me, but basically he's suggesting combinations of rests of various sizes, as you discovered. The advantage to this method is that it survives respacing. There is one thing he does that I don't, which is he keeps justification centred. I don't like that because I think we see chords as starting with the letter name, not in the centre of something like Bbm7(b5). So I use left-aligned chords, but I find THAT to be too far right. So as a last operation, I select All, go to the Utilities Menu>Change... Chords and Add to Current Position -10 EVPUs (that's NEGATIVE ten) to shift everything left a bit. Christopher On Thu Oct 4, at ThursdayOct 4 9:14 AM, 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
