Hi Christopher,

You’re a genius! It never occurred to me that you could add leading or trailing 
characters in that box, but, sure enough, it works. I had thought that to 
accomplish this you’d need to be able to do something along those lines (as 
with measure numbers) but didn’t realize it was possible with the 
auto-sequencing letters/numbers. Thank you!

Doug

> On Mar 8, 2018, at 7:13 PM, Christopher Smith 
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Hi Doug,
> 
> I don’t use the Duncan Rehearsal font for letters, but if you only need two 
> characters for the enclosure, there is a way (and possibly a way even if you 
> need more!)
> 
> Take one of the pre-made repeating rehearsal marks, make the font Rehearsal. 
> Then OUTSIDE the gray box, add the leading enclosure character BEFORE the 
> gray box, then the trailing enclosure character AFTER the gray box. It will 
> not sequence like the letters inside the box, so they will stay the same.
> 
> Try this out. If you need more specific instructions, write back.
> 
> Christopher
> 
> 
>> On Thu Mar 8, at ThursdayMar 8 9:28 PM, Doug Walter <[email protected]> 
>> wrote:
>> 
>> I know there’s still a handful of folks here using Bill Duncan’s fonts in 
>> various combinations, perhaps most notably the chord symbol one(s). I still 
>> haven’t found or managed to create any chord symbol font that I like better 
>> than his and continue to use it in Finale files that I know I won’t have to 
>> “share” with someone else who may not have it/them installed. (And I keep 
>> hoping, probably in vain, that MakeMusic might someday purchase them to be 
>> included with the program as they did long ago with the Jazz Font.)
>> 
>> Lately I’ve been trying to branch out a bit and use a few more of his fonts, 
>> in this case the one called Rehearsal. Has anyone found a way to use those 
>> in Finale’s convenient Rehearsal Marks: Auto-Sequencing Rehearsal Letters 
>> with rectangular enclosures setup? Since Bill’s font requires at least 3 
>> keystrokes (for a single letter) to create the enclosure with the “shadow” 
>> effect, I’ve had to create a separate entry for each letter of the alphabet 
>> to then assign as needed as rehearsal letters.
>> 
>> Not a huge deal, and of course you can create the library once and save it, 
>> but you end up losing the auto-sequencing feature which reletters the entire 
>> section following a letter or letters that you delete. Using Bill’s font 
>> you’d need to delete all the subsequent rehearsal letters after removing one 
>> and then reassign them, as we used to have to do in old versions of Finale.
>> 
>> I’ve got one or two more Bill Duncan-related questions but will start a 
>> separate thread as necessary to avoid confusion.
>> 
>> Thanks for any help,
>> 
>> Doug
>> 
>> 
>> 
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