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 >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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]
