You get that by putting a right facing rectangular bracket at the beginning of 
the string of letters and a left one at the end. Then each letter acquires both 
brackets. Hope I’m remembering this right. Don’t have Finale with me. 

Sent from my iPhone

> On Mar 8, 2018, at 9:20 PM, Doug Walter <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> 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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