Might it be possible to divide the measure to which you want to apply a mid-measure staff style into two measures, beginning exactly where the new staff style begins? You'd have to make new time signatures (but set to display as the prevailing one), hide the barline, and either start a new number region or exclude the second measure from your measure count. There may be some spacing issues and beaming issues, but those are pretty easily fixed. This way, Finale would think, internally, that you had a full measure in which to apply the staff style, but would display as one measure. And you'd save all your layers for whatever you need them to do, and not have to fuss with playback.
David Froom On 25 Nov 2012, at 1:00 PM, Darcy James Argue wrote: > 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? _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
