Re: [Finale] proportional notation

2016-08-28 Thread Vincent Giles
Thanks Mark and Jef, I will check out the value of 2 in engraving settings. I couldn't really wrap my head around that, so thanks for the tips! I am about to start a new piece, so will give this all a go and if I run into grief, I'll send specific queries through. Thanks again, Vincent Giles

[Finale] SmartScore X2 Pro for Mac

2016-08-28 Thread Thurletta Brown-Gavins
A few weeks ago when the discussion centered on the elimination of scanning from Finale 2014.5, someone wrote that they were using the Pro edition of SmartScore instead of the SmartScore Lite 8.1 that is included with Finale. Can't find my password to get into the list archives to see who you

Re: [Finale] proportional notation

2016-08-28 Thread SN jef chippewa
mark already gave some practical advice but there is not really any such thing in practice as "real" proportional music spacing. or rather, all music spacing is proportional to varying degrees but some circumstances warrant an *almost* 2:1 ratio in horizontal spacing of doubled durational

Re: [Finale] proportional notation

2016-08-28 Thread Mark D Lew
Although I’ve never used it, I think that’s what Finale means by “Time Signature Spacing”. You should be able to accomplish the same thing with the right settings under Music Spacing Options. I’m in an older version of Finale, but for me that’s under Preferences > Document Options > Music