[Finale] Ignore barlines
Is there any way to get Finale's music spacing (Apply Note Spacing) routine to ignore barlines? What I need is for the barlines to still print, but no extra horizontal space to be allotted for them. Why would I make such a crazy request, you ask? I'm working on some hymns. If you look at older, hand-engraved hymn books, most of them employ this spacing technique. With several layers of lyrics, you usually have to steal as much horizontal space as you can to get everything to fit properly, so *not* leaving extra (wasted) space for barlines is one way to accomplish this. I've tried making the barlines invisible and re-spacing. This helps a little, but not enough. If I could somehow take out the barlines, respace, and put them back in (being careful not to re-re-space!) that might be an option, but it seems like that might have other unintended side effects. Have any of you had to do this? --Andy Parks ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
Re: [Finale] Ignore barlines
Go to Document Options Notes and Rests and change the value for Spacing Before Music. If you set this to zero, the first note of the measure will be stuck to the barline, so its better to just reduce it to maybe half of the default value. You can also set a negative value for Spacing After Music, so by trying out different combinations for these two settings you should be able to achieve the result you want. Michael On 26 Feb 2011, at 17:02, Andrew Parks wrote: Is there any way to get Finale's music spacing (Apply Note Spacing) routine to ignore barlines? What I need is for the barlines to still print, but no extra horizontal space to be allotted for them. Why would I make such a crazy request, you ask? I'm working on some hymns. If you look at older, hand-engraved hymn books, most of them employ this spacing technique. With several layers of lyrics, you usually have to steal as much horizontal space as you can to get everything to fit properly, so *not* leaving extra (wasted) space for barlines is one way to accomplish this. I've tried making the barlines invisible and re-spacing. This helps a little, but not enough. If I could somehow take out the barlines, respace, and put them back in (being careful not to re-re-space!) that might be an option, but it seems like that might have other unintended side effects. Have any of you had to do this? --Andy Parks ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
Re: [Finale] Ignore barlines
add a value to the extra space at the end box in the measure dialogue. on an individual basis or select a group of measures. ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
Re: [Finale] Ignore barlines
It is hard to find (took me a couple of minutes!), but it is in Document OptionsNotes and Rests...Spacing Before Music. Spacing After music is set to zero by default, so that each note takes up the space it is supposed to. It is also in TG Tools Pro. Under Spacing you have Make/Remove Space at end of Measure and Modify a measure's leading white space. I think this last one might do what you want on a per-measure basis. Christopher On Sat Feb 26, at SaturdayFeb 26 11:02 AM, Andrew Parks wrote: Is there any way to get Finale's music spacing (Apply Note Spacing) routine to ignore barlines? What I need is for the barlines to still print, but no extra horizontal space to be allotted for them. Why would I make such a crazy request, you ask? I'm working on some hymns. If you look at older, hand-engraved hymn books, most of them employ this spacing technique. With several layers of lyrics, you usually have to steal as much horizontal space as you can to get everything to fit properly, so *not* leaving extra (wasted) space for barlines is one way to accomplish this. I've tried making the barlines invisible and re-spacing. This helps a little, but not enough. If I could somehow take out the barlines, respace, and put them back in (being careful not to re-re-space!) that might be an option, but it seems like that might have other unintended side effects. Have any of you had to do this? --Andy Parks ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
