Just for the record, MuseScore and Dorico (and I'm pretty sure Sibelius)
treat endings, regardless of length, as a single object of variable
length, not as a collection of lines that the user has to nip and tuck
to get to look right. They all display endings properly, regardless of
length, without any special effort on the user's part.
On 8/15/2019 2:57 PM, Craig Parmerlee wrote:
I'm with you, David. I am certain this worked in the past. I just
tried it with 25.5 and it does not work -- my results are as John
Robert described.
I have only 25.5 installed on my computer and haven't really used it
for almost a year. So I can't say what version last worked in this
regard. I am pretty sure 2012 worked. at least as far as allowing you
to stretch the bracket in scroll mode and display the bracket
correctly in page layout. But even when it "worked" it was still
really crappy. It was difficult to get the brackets to line up
correctly, so most scores looked very unprofessional if they had
endings more than a couple of measures. One would have thought
sometime in the 30-year history of the product they would have fixed
this.
If having endings look correct is important, I'd strongly suggest
switching to a product that does them correctly and automatically.
On 8/15/2019 9:35 AM, David H. Bailey 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.
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