Hi Chris, Shortening the stem does not hide the flag.
It's not possible to create a stemless notes staff style that only affects a particular layer. That's the first thing I checked! Cheers, - DJA ----- WEB: http://www.secretsocietymusic.org On Aug 23, 2015, at 2:00 PM, Christopher Smith <christopher.sm...@videotron.ca> wrote: > What would happen if you used the Custom Stem tool to drag the stem shorter, > into the notehead itself, effectively hiding it? Does the same problem occur? > > Another possibility is creating a Staff Style with no stems affecting only > Layer 3. I am not near my Finale computer, so I can’t check that. > > Christopher > > >> On Aug 23, 2015, at 1:54 PM, Darcy James Argue <djar...@icloud.com> wrote: >> >> So this is a very annoying bug with no workaround that I can think of… >> >> I am trying to show a 12-tone series on a part for an improvising soloist. I >> also want to show a cued bass line in the same measure. >> >> The part is in 4/4 so the 12-tone row is in eighth-note triplets in layer 3. >> I want those notes to be stemless. But I want to show the stems on the cued >> bass line, in layer 4. So I create the stemless notes the old-fashioned way, >> using the Custom Stem Tool and a blank shape, breaking all the triplet >> beams, and hiding the triplet numbers and brackets. So far, so good. >> >> The problem comes when it is time to copy this notation to another measure. >> When a custom stem has been applied to the first triplet in the measure, >> copying it causes the triplet to be deleted and the first three eighth notes >> of the 12-tone row come in as regular (non-triplet) eighth notes. (The other >> triplets come in correctly — only the first triplet in the measure is >> affected.) >> >> Needless to say, this is a bit of a nightmare. The only workaround I can >> think of is leaving the regular stem in place for the first triplet, copying >> this notation everywhere I need it (which is many, many places), and then, >> once all of the copy operations are complete, going back and applying the >> custom stem measure-by-measure as needed. >> >> Can anyone (A) confirm this bug and (B) think of a better workaround? >> >> Cheers, >> >> - DJA >> ----- >> WEB: http://www.secretsocietymusic.org >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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 _______________________________________________ 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
