Font Annotations are a list of measurements that show where the top, bottom, left, and right limits of a character are. They help with kerning (space between text characters) and in Finale they also help with figuring out how far something is supposed to be from another thing, say slur ends for example. Normally, you don't have to worry about them, but if you are using a font that Finale doesn't know about, you might have to create a Font Annotation for it. It is automatic in recent versions of Finale, but I am away from my Finale computer right now, so I don't know exactly where the command to create the Font Annotations is.
When you click a note with the Articulation Tool, a window opens up. This window contains all the articulations that are presently loaded. You can make the window bigger (I certainly have!) to show more of them at a glance. If for some reason you don't have the factory set of articulations loaded, you can load a library. There are several different ones included. The breath mark is metatool B in my Finale default file. I'm pretty sure it came from the factory like that. Hold the B key and click the note. You can create more articulations using any character at all in any font. The hard part is figuring out the default placement, which always requires a bit of trying this and that. Christopher On 12-Jan-15, at 12-Jan-15 11:11 AM, Lawrence David Eden wrote: > Greetings, > > As a long time user of Finale, I am embarrassed to admit that I > don’t know what Font Annotations are. Please explain! > > How do I get Finale to show me the entire library of > articulations? I want to insert a breath mark into my score, but > can’t find it….help, please. > > > Thanks, > > Larry Eden > _______________________________________________ > 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
