Re: [Finale] Beating my head against the wall on repeats

2014-02-02 Thread Jari Williamsson
On 2014-02-01 00:07, Craig Parmerlee wrote: and even then you can drag the marks assigned to the FIRST measure of a mm rest. In Page View, you're just editing the first measure content of the MM rest. With repeat text that might be confusing, since the measure contents of the last measure is

Re: [Finale] Beating my head against the wall on repeats

2014-02-02 Thread Craig Parmerlee
On 2/2/2014 3:15 AM, Jari Williamsson wrote: In Page View, you're just editing the first measure content of the MM rest. With repeat text that might be confusing, since the measure contents of the last measure is also displayed. Use Scroll View and edit the position of the repeat text of

Re: [Finale] Beating my head against the wall on repeats

2014-02-02 Thread Brian Williams
Since you mentioned that the problem most likely originated when you first created the text repeat in an awkward location, and then when you tried to fix that, it only changed its position in the score, I would recommend re-linking the expression to the score/parts, moving the master (score) text

Re: [Finale] Beating my head against the wall on repeats

2014-02-02 Thread Brian Williams
Sorry, I meant to use text repeat instead of expression in my last post. -Brian ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale

Re: [Finale] Beating my head against the wall on repeats

2014-02-02 Thread Peter Taylor
Brian Williams wrote: Sorry, I meant to use text repeat instead of expression in my last post. Freudian slip? :) I'm with Christopher on this question - I *always* use expressions for text repeats, and cccasionally I've even inserted them in the measure AFTER a MM rest to make sure they're

Re: [Finale] Beating my head against the wall on repeats

2014-02-02 Thread Craig Parmerlee
On 2/2/2014 3:34 PM, Peter Taylor wrote: I'm with Christopher on this question - I *always* use expressions for text repeats, and cccasionally I've even inserted them in the measure AFTER a MM rest to make sure they're visible. If I ever want to record the playback I use hidden text repeats

Re: [Finale] Beating my head against the wall on repeats

2014-02-02 Thread Chuck Israels
On Feb 2, 2014, at 3:34 PM, Craig Parmerlee cr...@parmerlee.com wrote: On 2/2/2014 3:34 PM, Peter Taylor wrote: I'm with Christopher on this question - I *always* use expressions for text repeats, and cccasionally I've even inserted them in the measure AFTER a MM rest to make sure they're

Re: [Finale] Beating my head against the wall on repeats

2014-02-02 Thread Peter Taylor
Craig Parmerlee wrote: On 2/2/2014 3:34 PM, Peter Taylor wrote: I'm with Christopher on this question - I *always* use expressions for text repeats, and cccasionally I've even inserted them in the measure AFTER a MM rest to make sure they're visible. If I ever want to record the playback I

Re: [Finale] Beating my head against the wall on repeats

2014-02-02 Thread Craig Parmerlee
On 2/2/2014 6:52 PM, Chuck Israels wrote: It's not elegant. It's clumsy - but it does work, and it's the only way I know to accomplish a part that looks right. It seems to me that Jari's solution, while still a work-around, will allow you to get the parts to look right without having to

Re: [Finale] Beating my head against the wall on repeats

2014-02-02 Thread Craig Parmerlee
On 2/2/2014 7:50 PM, Peter Taylor wrote: Well, in my book you *should* break a MM rest to show embedded markers and expressions etc. To reach a D.S. or To Coda etc. before you've finished counting the empty measures seems very wrong to me, and I guess to Finale's authors too.. Finale