Exactly as I see it too. There haven't been many revolutionary changes
in Finale in the past 4 or 5 years, but there have been a whole bunch of
subtle refinements that really do represent progress. I just wish when
they are working with a feature such as showing repeat markers in the
last bar of mm rest, they would finish the job. But what they have
done is certainly better than nothing. With F2014 (and probably 10, 11,
and 12 too) I see no reason at all for text expressions to mimic the
repeats.
For those who haven't bitten the bullet to go to F2014, I definitely
recommend that. Life is smoother in many little ways. It is well worth
the money, IMHO.
On 2/4/2014 2:20 PM, Brian Williams wrote:
In my last post, I said that in older versions of Finale repeat text
attached to the last measure of a multimeasure rest region would not show.
Actually, now that I think about it, the way Finale used to behave is that
it automatically would not include measures that had repeat text attached
to them in multimeasure rests. So, for example, if you had a D.S. al
Coda indication at the end of a bunch of empty measures that you normally
would want to see as a multimeasure rest, Finale would make a multimeasure
rest of all but that last measure (to which the D.S. al Coda text was
attached) and then have a one-bar rest measure with the repeat text.
Obviously, this situation was not ideal, so that is why so many long-time
Finale users got used to attaching dummy text repeats to the first bar
of the multimeasure rest region or using expressions instead of repeat
text.
As I said in my previous post, this problem (except for being able to drag
the position of unlinked repeat text attached to the last measure of a
multimeasure rest region) was corrected several versions ago.
-Brian Williams
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