On 2/26/2016 9:25 AM, Neal Gittleman wrote: > I know we have some experienced Sibelius users on this group, and maybe one > of them can help… > > I’m working on a project with a composer who uses Sibelius. There’s a > passage in (3+2)/8 where the pattern is > eighth note, eighth rest, eighth rest, eighth note, eighth rest > > For ease of parsing the beats, we’d like top extend the beams to include the > rest, yielding two beam groups: one of 3 eighths, one of 2 eighths. Using > the normal Sibelius beaming tools, you get this easily but the beam of the > 3/8 section is horizontal while the beam of the 2/8 section is slanted. > > The goal is to get the 2/8 note+rest group to have a horizontal beam that > includes the rest. > > After lots of googling, I did find a way to do it by changing the beam > settings globally, instrument-by-instrument, but no way to select a passage > and adjust the beam angle. > > Anyone know of a way to selectively (or even individually) flatten beams in > Sibelius? >
In the Engraving Rules - Beams and Stems dialog if you select "Stemlets" and then select "Make Beams Horizontal For Groups With Stemlets" you get horizontal beams for all the groups with notes and rests. You can also get the stemlets to practically disappear (they are still there as very small stemlets) if you uncheck the box for "Extend stemlets into staff." Those suggestions will work for the whole score when you make the adjustments I've suggested. I can't see any way to make all the beams over rests horizontal without adjusting each beam manually. -- David H. Bailey [email protected] http://www.davidbaileymusicstudio.com _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] https://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale To unsubscribe from finale send a message to: [email protected]
