Don, Once I found that it gave me the visual layout I like I don't change it at all.
It'll be interesting to see what settings others use. David On 10/4/2012 7:09 PM, Don Hart wrote: > Hi David, > > I used to use a MMW setting similar to yours. Do you find the need to > change this setting very frequently? Believe I picked up the zero-width > idea around this list at some point but can't remember the reasoning behind > it. Setting to zero has worked well for me since: no fuss, looks good and > not overly-spacious. > > Anyone else have a preference on this? > > Don > > On Thu, Oct 4, 2012 at 2:02 PM, David H. Bailey < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> On 10/4/2012 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. >>> >> >> >> I never have my minimum measure width set to zero -- I always have it >> set to what I prefer to look at when I see a measure with only a whole >> rest in it or a single note with nothing else. And for most of >> projects, that is .5 inches. Try using that setting and see how things >> look for you. >> >> >> -- >> David H. Bailey >> [email protected] >> _______________________________________________ >> Finale mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale >> > _______________________________________________ > Finale mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale > > -- David H. Bailey [email protected] _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
