Well, I hope if MakeMusic changes this, then they do it BETTER than they did with lyrics!
Right now, if there is a note without a lyric on it following a note WITH a lyric, Finale turns OFF "avoid lyric collisions" for that syllable. This would be fine, if you didn't have the lyric "thought of you" with only a single sixteenth note melisma on "thought". That word collides with "of" as a result. I would frankly rather have what we have now. At least I can deal with it. Christopher On Thu Oct 4, at ThursdayOct 4 6:05 PM, Don Hart wrote: > Thanks Christopher, > > That's what I recalled, and what has kept me (and apparently, a number of > others) from using chord spacing. My previously-mentioned, failed > experiment worked after adding entries to the test measure. I was able to > verify the potential for ugly spacing with lengthy suffixes in addition to > what you describe. > > Would be really cool if MM could fix this in a similar fashion to how they > handled lyrics. > > Don > > On Thu, Oct 4, 2012 at 10:18 AM, Christopher Smith < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> Yes, there are very good reasons not to include chords in spacing! >> >> If you put a chord symbol over, say, an eighth note, it opens up a giant >> amount of space in front of the next note. It doesn't seem to know that >> there isn't a chord on the next note. >> >> Also, putting a check on Chords in Music Spacing doesn't seem to have any >> effect unless we have actual entries in the measure. It only seems to avoid >> collisions between ENTRIES with chords on them. If we have chord symbols >> over notes in the measure, there isn't really a good way to space them, >> except maybe putting hidden rests in another layer, which would mean having >> to adjust stem directions, etc. >> >> Christopher >> >> >> On Thu Oct 4, at ThursdayOct 4 10:00 AM, Jari Williamsson 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 >> > _______________________________________________ > Finale mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
