> On Thu Mar 8, at ThursdayMar 8 10:20 PM, Doug Walter <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Hi Christopher, > > You’re a genius!
Yes. Yes, I am. Thank you for noticing. (blush) Actually, I think I’m more along the lines of Bill Murray’s character in “Groundhog Day”, where he knows all these things just because he has been through it all before, many, many times. C > 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 >>> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Finale mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> https://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale >>> >>> To unsubscribe from finale send a message to: >>> [email protected] >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Finale mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale >> >> To unsubscribe from finale send a message to: >> [email protected] > > > _______________________________________________ > Finale mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale > > To unsubscribe from finale send a message to: > [email protected] _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] https://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale To unsubscribe from finale send a message to: [email protected]
