Foolishly, the "To adjust the brackets on a repeat ending" in Finale Help does not say that this is best accomplished in Page View, but that has always been the case. (They also don't tell you to wait to make the adjustment until after layout is complete. Oy.)
On Thu, Aug 15, 2019 at 10:22 AM John Roberts <an...@nycap.rr.com> wrote: > It’s a guitar tab piece, a 32-bar waltz section and with variation on the > repeat it works out to 16-bar 1st and 2nd endings, with about 5 bars per > system. I also seem to remember that your solution used to work, but it’s a > long time since I needed to do this. > > It is for a client, but it’s my call on how it’s laid out. I need to keep > the music theory minimal for folk guitar students :-) so I think a DS > system wouldn’t work for me, and in any case similar repeats will come up > in later sections of the piece. Triple segnos are too confusing for me! > > Thanks for the input. > > JR > > > > On Aug 15, 2019, at 9:35 AM, David H. Bailey <dhbaile...@comcast.net> > wrote: > > > > On 8/15/2019 8:29 AM, John Roberts wrote: > >> That’s the first thing I tried, David - I got a very long line on the > first system that stretched way off the page. > >> JR > > > > Is this something you have to do for a client or is it your own > project? If it's your own project, might it be better to use some sort of > D.S. structure instead of a long first ending? > > > > I just tried my solution and it doesn't work -- sorry. > > > > I guess you just have to place it in page view, where the start of the > ending bracket will show on the first system included in the ending, and > the end of the ending bracket will show on its system and you'll simply > have to place graphic lines on the in-between systems. > > > > I could swear my solution used to work alright when placing it in scroll > view, but I may be confusing Finale with Sibelius, where it definitely is > much easier to accomplish what you want. > > > > > > -- > > ***** > > David H. Bailey > > dhbaile...@comcast.net > > http://www.davidbaileymusicstudio.com > > > _______________________________________________ > Finale mailing list > Finale@shsu.edu > https://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale > > To unsubscribe from finale send a message to: > finale-unsubscr...@shsu.edu _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu https://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale To unsubscribe from finale send a message to: finale-unsubscr...@shsu.edu
