On 28 Jun 2017, at 1:00 PM, jef chippewa <[email protected]> wrote: > > regarding the spacing, you might find it useful > to integrate {DocOptions/Music Spacing/Avoid > Collision of: Hidden Notes} into what robert > already mentioned.
Another useful trick. Thanks! > > if you use a specific layer ONLY for those hidden > notes and nowhere else in the score, then > DocOptions/Layers and uncheck "affects spacing" > for that layer. Actually, this doesn’t work for my situation, as I am hiding my main layer in these measures. For example, when I use a string of running piano 16th notes that are to be held with the hands and tied to a sustained chord (so a tie extends from each 16th note, then those ties are stretched with special tools so all of them reach the chord), the playback is messed up because the notes don’t sustain and the chord sounds. So, I put the notation the way I want it to look in layer 4, set layer 4 to have a volume of 0 in the score manager, then use a staff style to hide layer 1, which is written the way I’d write it to get playback correct. > > even more geeky, in speedy entry, in the hidden > layer, opt-click (mac) on the measure and you can > define which notes affect the music spacing. > note i have not had 100% success with this in > other contexts (collisions of layers where i want > an abnormal positioning of one or both of the > layers), seems to be only a problem on the 1st > note in the measure. This seems like overkill, but nice to know about for special situations. > > you could use a value like 15% or something for > the "hidden object shading" (prefs/view). this > is a global setting, but 15% is faded enough to > not really disturb and you can still read any > text that is hidden (e.g., i use a category > defined with hidden text to make notes in the > score for myself about workarounds or quirky > approaches to notating things). I set the value to 0% here. What I was looking for, however, was a transparency setting. Even having these pale disturbs me, and at 0% I see the opaque white blobs where the notes were. Thanks for these tips! David _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] https://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale To unsubscribe from finale send a message to: [email protected]
