Yet more bugs / annoyances / bad ideas. I was able to get to the dialog as you suggested. Just for fun, I selected all my suffixes and clicked delete. This would make sense on a document that had no chords, to prepare to import a new suffix library.
As it happens, I had entered one chord in this score. When I asked to delete all the suffixes, Finale informed me that one or more of the suffixes were in use, and asked permission to delete them. That's nice. I declined, so Finale kept the one suffix that was in use. That's also nice. But then arrrrgh, a completely stupid result. Finale renumbered the suffixes starting with 1, so my lone suffix had been 51, and is now #1. That makes perfect sense, but ONLY IF Finale adjusted all the used of suffix #51 and changed them to refer to suffix 1. As you might guess, so such thing happened, so we have a chord with 51 selected, but there is no such suffix, and the chord now displays is if it has no suffix. This is really sloppy programming and testing IMHO. So the upshot is the only time it is safe to delete suffixes is when you don't have any chords or if you are deleting suffixes at the end of the file, with numbers higher than any suffixes you used. I am now creating my own subset of the chord library. I was able to delete about 40 redundant entries (I deleted all the "MAJ" suffices and kept the "MA" versions. I deleted all the "MI" suffixes and kept the "MIN" ones, and removed a few more I am certain I would never use. Now I guess I'll make up a notebook that has all the remaining suffixes. This seems like such a primitive way to have to work, and it is all because Finale cannot make sense out of simple, commonly recognized chord names. On 6/22/2014 2:58 AM, Christopher Smith wrote: > Craig, > > There are two ways into the Chord Suffix Selection dialog box. If you go the > way you did, you only get the Cancel and Select buttons. Do this instead. > > Create a chord on your score. Click the handle and hit Return (you used to be > able to double click, but that doesn't work now for a couple of versions. One > more thing to complain about.) > > At the top of the dialog box you probably have a radio button called Show > Advanced. Click this. (If it says Hide Advanced, then don't do anything. > Fortunately, Finale remembers the setting of this button even after a quit, > so you don't have to press it every time.) > > At the bottom of the expanded dialog box, you have another radio button > called Select. Click this and when the Chord Suffix Selection dialog box > appears THIS TIME you have the Edit, Duplicate, Delete, Move Down and Move Up > buttons showing. You can also shift-click to select a series of suffixes (to > delete them all at once) or even command-click them to select of deselect > discontiguous suffixes. > > In my opinion, it is ridiculous to have to go through this to get here. All > those extra buttons SHOULD be there even if you type C:0 (C colon zero), as > this is when you really need them. Please complain to Tech Support about > this, as I have. Point out that this is the SAME dialog box with the SAME > NAME only missing the five edit buttons, so you can't even search the manual > for the real instructions. > > I'll look at your other emails and reply. The Chord Tool is steaming pile of > doo-doo and has been for quite a while. It is the worst tool in Finale right > now, including the Shape Designer (which is pretty harsh criticism, you'll > have to admit!) > > Christopher > _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] https://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale To unsubscribe from finale send a message to: [email protected]
