I believe what’s going on here is Michael going from a minor to a major key (or vica versa) - that will produce a cancellation of all current accidentals and then restating the new key signature. Easy fix: only use major keys.
Thomas > On May 10, 2018, at 8:59 PM, Aaron Sherber <[email protected]> wrote: > > I think either Steve is misreading Michael's original post, or I am. > > I read the post as saying that if Michael is going from Eb major to F > major, for example, he's seeing 3 naturals followed by a single flat. I > don't believe I've ever seen this behavior, and I can't reproduce it > currently. That's why I asked if he had a small file that demonstrates the > issue. > > Aaron. > > > > > On Thu, May 10, 2018 at 3:35 PM, Fiskum, Steve <[email protected]> wrote: > >> You will be glad to know that this issue has FINALLY been fixed but only >> in FIN25. I've lobbied for this for years and it was welcome news to find >> out they finally gave us the option to control this about a year ago >> (attached screenshot). The workaround was always painful! >> >> Enjoy! >> Steve >> >> ________________________________________ >> From: Finale <[email protected]> on behalf of Michael Edwards < >> [email protected]> >> Sent: Thursday, May 10, 2018 12:04 PM >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: [Finale] Finale doesn't change key signatures correctly. >> >> 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] >> > _______________________________________________ > 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]
