For this piece I'm acting as editor rather than composer, so I don't feel at liberty to change the meter from 7/4. (Were I the composer, I'd probably just alternate between 3/4 and 4/4.)
I though about using expressions for the dotted barlines, but the group barlines for the keyboard part would be a challenge. Maybe no worse a challenge than my workaround for the multimeas rests, though. There's also the issue of note-spacing. I guess every solution requires extra manual work. On Tue, Oct 7, 2014 at 6:54 PM, Christopher Smith < christopher.sm...@videotron.ca> wrote: > > On Tue Oct 7, at TuesdayOct 7 6:52 PM, David H. Bailey wrote: > > > On 10/7/2014 6:28 PM, Robert Patterson wrote: > >> I'm working on a piece in 7/4 that has dotted barlines showing the 4+3 > or > >> 3+4 subdivisions. So far the way I am handling it is to put in 2 "real" > >> bars totaling 7/4 for each graphic bar, with dotted barlines on the odd > >> real bars and "include in meas numbering" unchecked on the even real > bars. > >> Leaving aside the vagaries of unchecking "include in meas numbering", > which > >> like so many recent Finale features is only about 60% implemented > >> throughout the program, the main issue I have is multimeas rest in the > >> parts. The only solution I have come up with is to put real rest in, > force > >> create the multimeas rest (using my plugin for the purpose) and then > >> manually add the multimeas rest with expressions. > >> > >> Does anyone have a better overall solution than this? > >> > > > > I can't think of a better solution for 7/4 other than to suggest that if > > it were converted to 7/8 it would be much easier to show the 3-4 and 4-3 > > grouping via barring and you wouldn't need to mess around with measure > > numbers or multi-rests. > > > > Another solution for 7/4 (not necessarily better, but different) would > > be to leave them as 7/4 measures and create an articulation of a dotted > > vertical line which you can then insert where you want in each measure > > -- again no measure number messes and no multi-rest problems. > > > > > > -- > > David H. Bailey > > Your second paragraph is what I do, except I use the dotted barline > expression that comes with Finale now for a few versions, and use a blank > articulation if I need to open up more horizontal space. > > Christopher > > _______________________________________________ > Finale mailing list > Finale@shsu.edu > https://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale > > To unsubscribe from finale send a message to: > finale-unsubscr...@shsu.edu > _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu https://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale To unsubscribe from finale send a message to: finale-unsubscr...@shsu.edu
