Yes, that is a bug… darn it, I mean a lack of function. There are a number of kludges to deal with this.
My favourite is to enter F over Ab without the 7. Then enter ON THE SAME BEAT enter an Ab7, and at 400% zoom, carefully drag it into position over the existing Ab. This may seem odd, but it will perfectly match all the other poly chords in your piece, and will play back properly, too (I turn off chord playback myself, since I can’t stand the ham-fisted way Finale plays them back, but this is important to some people). Some other people enter F over Ab and add the 7 as an expression. Some others enter F and Ab7 separately on the same beat, drag them into position and add the line as an expression. Others enter Ab7 and enter both the F and the line as expressions. Too fiddly and too much to screw up in those versions for me, but you might find them useful. Christopher > On Aug 10, 2018, at 1:28 PM, William Huber <[email protected]> wrote: > > Dear All, > > I need to enter a polychord symbol into a score and parts. The polychord is > an F over an Ab7. I want to show the polychord with the F directly over the > Ab7 with a horizontal line between them. (I use a slash mark to depict chords > with an alternate bass note.) > > I am using manual input for the chord symbols, typing in the following: > “F_Ab7”. But when I move to the next chord, Finale removes the “7” so that > all I get is an “F/Ab”. My hope is to have just a chord symbol rather than a > chord symbol with a “7” added as either an expression or text file. I am > using Finale 2014.5 for this file, running Mac OS 10.11.6. > > All help is gratefully accepted. > > With Thanks in advance, > > Bill Huber > Nashville, TN > Finale List Digest Subscriber > _______________________________________________ > 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]
