Re: [Finale] Freeze measure widths?

2005-02-21 Thread Jari Williamsson
A-NO-NE Music wrote: So, how would you freeze the measure width which won't be screwed with Music Spacing? If you apply Music Spacing, it will affect measure widths. P.S. By the way, I used to [5]+DoubleClick to space music back in v2.6- 3.2 days. What happened to that feature? If that were

Re: [Finale] Freeze measure widths?

2005-02-20 Thread Jari Williamsson
Aaron Sherber wrote: At 05:27 PM 2/19/2005, Mark D Lew wrote: Now that you've explained it to me (I don't have 2k5), it sounds useful to me as is. I can think of times when I've wanted to add blank space at the beginning or end of the bar without changing the relative spacing of everything

Re: [Finale] Freeze measure widths?

2005-02-20 Thread Andrew Stiller
At 06:24 PM 2/19/2005, Mark D Lew wrote: Yes, I knew I had done it with one of the plug-ins, though I had forgotten which one. And TG allows negative numbers, too, right? Yes. You can add space at the beginning or end of a measure, or after a partal measure selection (i.e., mid-measure). And a

Re: [Finale] Freeze measure widths?

2005-02-19 Thread Don Hart
Dennis, I'm in 2005 on a Mac. I'm not sure about 2004 because I upgraded from 2002, but it sounds like this is new to '05. We still have the add box in '05; that's what I tried first and it does change when spacing is applied. Since I now understand that Mark was talking about a different

Re: [Finale] Freeze measure widths?

2005-02-19 Thread Mark D Lew
On Feb 18, 2005, at 11:49 PM, d. collins wrote: So do I use it all the time to fine-tune the layout, but I wanted to point out that it IS affected by music spacing, contrary to what Don seemed to say: If you want to assign a measure a larger width and have it not be affected by music spacing.

Re: [Finale] Freeze measure widths?

2005-02-19 Thread Mark D Lew
On Feb 19, 2005, at 2:49 PM, Aaron Sherber wrote: You can do this with TGTools, you know. Yes, I knew I had done it with one of the plug-ins, though I had forgotten which one. And TG allows negative numbers, too, right? For so many years I was on an ancient dinosaur Mac which couldn't operate

Re: [Finale] Freeze measure widths?

2005-02-19 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 06:24 PM 2/19/2005, Mark D Lew wrote: Yes, I knew I had done it with one of the plug-ins, though I had forgotten which one. And TG allows negative numbers, too, right? Yes. You can add space at the beginning or end of a measure, or after a partal measure selection (i.e., mid-measure). And a

[Finale] Freeze measure widths?

2005-02-18 Thread Don Hart
I was about to ask how to do this and tried one more thing before asking the list. Well the one thing worked and I thought some of you might like to know about it. If you want to assign a measure a larger width and have it not be affected by music spacing, increase the number(s) in the Extra

Re: [Finale] Freeze measure widths?

2005-02-18 Thread Mark D Lew
On Feb 18, 2005, at 3:30 PM, Don Hart wrote: If you want to assign a measure a larger width and have it not be affected by music spacing, increase the number(s) in the Extra Space boxes in Measure Attributes. Works like a charm. I use this box all the time. Often I'll select several measures

Re: [Finale] Freeze measure widths?

2005-02-18 Thread Don Hart
Thanks, Mark. The feature had slipped by me to this point and I thought I should share it, just in case. I wondered about negative numbers too; that's good to know. - Don on 2/18/05 6:16 PM, Mark D Lew at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Feb 18, 2005, at 3:30 PM, Don Hart wrote: If you want