Hi Dennis, I do it with the beam between the staves too. It’s the way I’ve seen it in some published material. I don’t find it ugly, but it can be troublesome when there are tuplets involved (where to place the numbers?, along the beam can be awkward - maybe within a bracket above the whole group), or when between stave dynamics interfere.
You enter the notes in the “parent” staff, use the Note Mover/Cross Staff menu selection to move the notes you want into the other staff and then use one of the Special Tools to adjust the stems to the correct side of the moved notes and another to adjust the placement and angle of the beam. I am not in front of Finale at the moment, and it always takes me a moment of fussing with the special tools to find the right ones and accomplish this, but it isn’t all that difficult. Hope this helps, Chuck > On Feb 25, 2015, at 11:09 AM, Dennis Bathory-Kitsz <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Hi all, > > I have a client score with many measures showing cross-staff notes on the same > stem, but with the beam between the staves. (I think it's ugly, but that's how > it's written.) > > Either I've forgotten how to do this or there's just an old kludge (entering > notes in each staff and precisely overlapping the beams). > > Any other way? > > Dennis > > > _______________________________________________ > Finale mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale > > To unsubscribe from finale send a message to: > [email protected] Chuck Israels [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> (360) 201-3434 8831 SE 12th Ave. Portland Or 97202 <chuckisraelsjazz.com> _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] https://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale To unsubscribe from finale send a message to: [email protected]
