At 11:47 AM +0200 10/18/12, Giovanni Andreani wrote: >This interests me to, but I hope there's a quicker solution! > >Giovanni
Giovanni: I know that every once in a while someone warns us that it isn't polite, when someone asks how to do something, to ask WHY they want to do it, but I'm really curious. Why do you want to center whole notes? This was pretty standard in a lot of music, including keyboard music, between the 16th and 18th centuries, and for a modern player makes it VERY difficult to read, again especially in keyboard music, when the notes are not lined up according to the beat on which they fall. In effect you have to mentally move the notes from where they are to where they should be sounded. Placing a whole note visually on the first beat of a measure, even in an extracted part, seems to make more sense, and is therefore standard notational practice and is reflected in both Finale and Sibelius defaults. But I'm sure you DO have a good reason, and I'm just curious about it. John -- John R. Howell, Assoc. Prof. of Music Virginia Tech Department of Music School of Performing Arts & Cinema College of Liberal Arts & Human Sciences 290 College Ave., Blacksburg, Virginia 24061-0240 Vox (540) 231-8411 Fax (540) 231-5034 (mailto:[email protected]) http://www.music.vt.edu/faculty/howell/howell.html "Machen Sie es, wie Sie wollen, machen Sie es nur schön." (Do it as you like, just make it beautiful!) --Johannes Brahms _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
