Re: [Finale] Independent Time Signatures Music Spacing

2005-05-22 Thread Michael Cook
Which version of Finale are you using? Note spacing with independent 
time signatures was broken for several years, but as far as I know it 
works correctly in Finale 2005. If you're using 2005 and there's still 
a problem, I'd be interested to have more details: maybe you could send 
me a copy of the problematic passage.


Michael Cook

On 22 May 2005, at 20:28, David W. Fenton wrote:


Am I correct that if you have independent time signatures in a score,
that note spacing doesn't work for the independent time signature (as
opposed to the real time signature)?

I've never used independent time signatures before, but am now
transcribing a piano quartet from 1796 where in the 6/8 Rondo at the
end, the piano switches back and forth between 6/8 and 2/4 while the
string parts stay in 6/8. I was delighted to discover that
independent time signatures allowed me to do this, but now that I've
got all the notes in, I've discovered that music spacing just doesn't
work well at all.

If I apply time signature spacing to the 2/4 part, it's OK except for
the sections with accidentals.

Is there any solution to this?

Or is this yet another of the myriad half-baked feature in Finale
that no one has really completely finished?

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Re: [Finale] Independent Time Signatures Music Spacing

2005-05-22 Thread David W. Fenton
On 22 May 2005 at 21:36, Michael Cook wrote:

 Which version of Finale are you using? Note spacing with independent
 time signatures was broken for several years, but as far as I know it
 works correctly in Finale 2005. If you're using 2005 and there's still
 a problem, I'd be interested to have more details: maybe you could
 send me a copy of the problematic passage.

I'm using WinFin2K3.

I am not planning to upgrade because of two reasons:

1. the activation systemm without key escrow, AND

2. not enough useful new features/fixes to justify the upgrade.

While I'd love to have correct spacing for this particular file, this 
is the first time in nearly 15 years of my use of Finale that I've 
used it. 

Should I ever need it again, I'll make the time signature change 
cosmetic and enter the notes as tuplets. That would have been very 
easy in the present case because it's rhythmically homogenous, so I 
could easily use the CAPS LOCK in speedy entry to enter it very fast.

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David Fenton Associateshttp://www.bway.net/~dfassoc

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