Sorry Linda--I missed your explanation of where these whole rests are coming from. The inadvertent entries I understand, but I haven't had any trouble with Finale-generated whole rests. Is it a feature you can turn off? Can you elaborate? - Don
On Sat, May 30, 2015 at 4:30 PM, Don Hart <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Linda, > > In speedy or simple note entry one has to enter real whole rests on > purpose, in lieu of the default whole rests that show in empty measures, so > it's always seemed to me an efficient way to keep from hiding a staff. If > I recall correctly, that was also the method used to preserve staves when > optimizing. > > I'm curious how these hard rests are getting in your scores--is it via > importing midi or some such preliminary format? > > Best, > > Don > > On Sat, May 30, 2015 at 4:02 PM, Linda Worsley <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Optimize is now "hide empty measures" and it's found in the menu bar under >> "staff" (with the staff tool in use) at the bottom of the list. You muse >> select the range of measures hyou want... um... optimized... and it will >> hide the empty measures. It won't hide any empty measures containing >> "hard" whole rests, and sometimes I've had to go through and delete those >> that have been put there either inadvertently or with some new "helpful" >> feature of Fiknale. >> >> Finale just can't let well enough alone. I have become more frustrated >> with each new version... I've been using Finale since version zero point >> zero in the eighties, and for awhile, each version made beautiful, >> intuitive changes. But not lately. Finale 2014 for mac is a nightmare in >> so many ways. But it's still better than slogging through making >> handwritten scores, so... >> >> Linda Worsley >> _______________________________________________ >> Finale mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale >> >> To unsubscribe from finale send a message to: >> [email protected] >> > > _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] https://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale To unsubscribe from finale send a message to: [email protected]
