Expression clef for the partial measure is clearly the way to go here! You can get correct playback by putting the display notes in a non-playback layer and the sounding notes in a hidden layer.
Cheers, - DJA ----- WEB: http://www.secretsocietymusic.org On Nov 25, 2012, at 11:16 AM, Christopher Smith <[email protected]> wrote: > No, it's a limitation to staff styles (and to the Score Manager as well, no > way to change instruments in mid-measure without kludges). I have submitted a > feature request, if you could do the same, it would help a bit. > > May I suggest a second staff, carefully superimposed over the real one, > possibly with everything hidden except notes? I hate that kludge myself, but > I know you are the king of coaxing Finale to do strange things, so you might > be okay with it. If you don't care about playback, then of course there are > many ways to do it, including a clef as an expression. Since I have set > Finale to avoid collisions with articulations, I often force space by putting > a blank articulation on a note and moving it left until I get the amount of > space I want, say, to allow a clef as an expression. This method of adding > space survives a respace, and I am all about the respace, baby. > > Christopher > > > On Sun Nov 25, at SundayNov 25 10:01 AM, SN jef chippewa wrote: > >> >> any way to do this? i made a staff style set to no transposition >> (and show in treble clef) but this can only be applied to the entire >> measure (finale message). after clearing the partial measure i don't >> want affected, the transposition doesn't work at all in the measure. >> >> is there a trick to getting around this? >> >> is there any good reason it should only be possible to apply >> transposition (via staff styles) to entire measures? >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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
