The solution can be found in Document Options/key signatures. This is in Finale 25. IIRC, earlier versions are similar.
Larry Eden > On May 10, 2018, at 1:04 PM, Michael Edwards <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hallo. > > I have a problem in Finale with changing key signatures. There are two > basic options in Finale for this - to cancel the old key signature (partially > or entirely) with naturals before inserting the new one, or just inserting > the new one. > I always use the former option for this - the older, traditional method - > but Finale usually doesn't do this correctly, and I'm wondering if this is a > known problem and if there is anything I can do about it. > As I'm sure most here would know, you cancel the entire old key signature > if you go from sharps to flats or vice-versa; but if you go from sharps to a > smaller sharp signature or flats to a smaller flat signature, you cancel only > the flats or sharps in the old signature that won't be in the new one. And > if you are going from a smaller to a larger signature of the same type, then, > and only then, do you have no naturals at all. > However, most of the time, I find that Finale puts in all the naturals > for the entire old signature regardless - sometimes even in the last case I > mentioned where none are needed. > To make things more complicated, it sometimes seems to do things > correctly, which is why I just said "most of the time". That seems to > suggest that there are unknown, invisible circumstances in each situation > that govern whether this problem occurs or not. In a case where it does it > incorrectly, though, no amount of tweaking or re-doing it seems to make any > difference. > This seems such an obvious problem that I would find it incredible that > it has not, over all the years Finale has being going, been noticed and > corrected. > (To forestall anyone asking, yes, I have tried different settings in the > menu item that controls key signature changes. It does change some > behaviour, but not in a way that is correct according to the normal rules for > changing key signatures, as I described above.) > > Is this a known problem, and is there a remedy, please? Or am I possibly > doing something wrong that I just don't know about? > Thank you. > > Michael Edwards. > > > _______________________________________________ > 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]
