On 2/27/2016 7:22 AM, David H. Bailey wrote: > 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. >
EDIT: I meant to say in that last paragraph "I can see any *other* way to make . . ." -- 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]
