Thank you David, I tried working around the problem just farmer you suggestion 
and, while fiddling with the articulation designer I realised what JD Thomas 
pointed out, and it seems to new working.


> On 2 Sep 2019, at 17:11, J D Thomas <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> I deal with this issue all of the time but, if I understand you correctly, it 
> usually occurs with cross-staff notes with reverse stems.  My workaround is 
> to have two versions of the same articulation:  one’s position on the note 
> side and one on the stem side.  If the staccato dot appears on the wrong 
> side, I simply delete it and place the opposite one.  IOW, if the dot is 
> meant to be on the note side and it’s flipping on CS notes, I replace it with 
> a dot on the stem side; or vice versa.  Then Finale seems to place it 
> correctly.  I’ve been complaining about this for years.  In later versions of 
> Finale, they now have an auto placement for articulations.  But I’ve been 
> doing this workaround for song long, I haven’t tried that.
> 
> J D Thomas
> ThomaStudios
> 
> 
>> On Sep 2, 2019, at 2:40 AM, Giovanni Andreani <[email protected]> 
>> wrote:
>> 
>> I’ve got a series of eight notes, beamed in couples with their heads placed 
>> on two different adjacent staves (like a piano double staff system). They 
>> where so positioned via Note Mover –> Cross Staff; the top note has the stem 
>> facing downward and vice versa, therefore, the beam line lays horizontally 
>> between the two note-heads. Two staccato dots are placed on the note-heads 
>> but the staccato for the note one the top staff is erroneously positioned 
>> under the beam, instead of being above the note-head. If I double click the 
>> articulation’s handle, that’l suddenly move the staccato to its proper 
>> place, but just for the moment, until any other action is taken, after which 
>> it’ll go back to the original, unwanted place. It looks like Finale can’t 
>> deal with articulations on cross-staff notes with reversed stem, at least 
>> it’s happening to me now (and was the same in the past, as far as I recall).
>> I understand I could manually place an attachment of the needed symbol, but 
>> I would first try to see if there’s a possible, more effective workaround.
>> Running Finale 25.5 on a Mac.
>> 
>> 
>> ————
>> 
>> Giovanni Andreani
>> 
>> www.giovanniandreani.com
>> www.ga-music.com
>> 
>> 
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