The reason I don't usually include chords in the music spacing is the very ugly way it affects notation.
This is the way Don describes it: "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've created 2 small PNG files to illustrate, but was unsure about sending them as attachments to the list. Let me know if you'd like to see 'em. I would love to see this fixed or improved in Fin2013. Beat spacing (Ctrl-5) may help spacing for slash measures. Giz Richmond VA |-----Original Message----- |From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of |Jari Williamsson |Sent: Thursday, October 04, 2012 10:00 AM |To: [email protected] |Subject: Re: [Finale] chord chart slash spacing | |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. _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
