Thanks, Chuck, but Christopher already had the solution. I had tried what you 
suggested, but it wasn’t “building” the enclosure without the leading “[“ and 
trailing “]” (left and right bracket) characters that I was able to insert in 
the letter sequence box.

Thank you both!

Doug

> On Mar 8, 2018, at 9:17 PM, Chuck Israels <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Doug,
> 
> I’m recording in California this week, but when I get home, I can help you 
> with this. I think all you have to do is set up the sequencing letters and 
> choose the rehearsal font. 
> 
> Sent from my iPhone
> 
>> On Mar 8, 2018, at 6:28 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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