add lines in shape designer that correspond to the thickness of your document's staff lines. add the expressions to your template and if your staff lines are 3.5 EVPU in one document and 3 or 4 in another you can always change easily, once the thing is set up right.
seriously, this will be WAY less effort than layers (2 notes/stems per rest), especially since you have cross-staff happening and what if you ever have to go back and edit... > On Sun, February 19, 2017 2:51 pm, Barbara Touburg wrote: > > On 19-2-2017 20:31, Dennis Bathory-Kitsz wrote: > >> Shape designer came up with the character (staff + rest + opaque block) > >> except > >> that the staff lines character doesn't line up with the staff lines, > >> probably > >> because I've set the staff line thickness different from the default. > > > > Then you need to look in the document settings, lines and curves, to see > > your staff line settings. I think you are using 3.5. Draw lines in the > > shape designer of that thickness and place them on the background. > > I'm in the habit of changing my lines and curves as projects move forward to > improve the overall look, so that won't work. Back to the music layer kludge > .... SO wish we had graphics layers for every object (at the least, bring to > front / bring forward / send backward / send to back). _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] https://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale To unsubscribe from finale send a message to: [email protected]
