Re: [Finale] Help with cross-staff notes on stem above and below beam

2015-02-26 Thread Dennis Bathory-Kitsz
On Thu, February 26, 2015 6:04 am, David H. Bailey wrote: Seeing that graphic I think your best bet is to enter them separately on each staff then in a high magnification merge the beams. Thanks, yes, that's what you're looking at both in that Finale screencap and in the later PDF screencap

Re: [Finale] Help with cross-staff notes on stem above and below beam

2015-02-25 Thread Dennis Bathory-Kitsz
On Wed, February 25, 2015 2:52 pm, Chuck Israels wrote: I haven’t seen this before - notes across staves on the same stem. I was referring to a situation (not so uncommon, I think) in which the notes cross staves but have individual stems. Sorry, I don’t know how to accomplish this. Yup.

Re: [Finale] Help with cross-staff notes on stem above and below beam

2015-02-25 Thread Dennis Bathory-Kitsz
Here's what I mean: http://maltedmedia.com/images/finale/cross-staff-same-stem.jpg ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu https://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale To unsubscribe from finale send a message to: finale-unsubscr...@shsu.edu

Re: [Finale] Help with cross-staff notes on stem above and below beam

2015-02-25 Thread Chuck Israels
Oh boy! I haven’t seen this before - notes across staves on the same stem. I was referring to a situation (not so uncommon, I think) in which the notes cross staves but have individual stems. Sorry, I don’t know how to accomplish this. Chuck On Feb 25, 2015, at 11:45 AM, Dennis

Re: [Finale] Help with cross-staff notes on stem above and below beam

2015-02-25 Thread GERALD BERG
Good Kludge work Dennis! Looks weird but clean. I sure miss rests (where they would be) in the left hand. GJB On Wed, 2/25/15, Dennis Bathory-Kitsz bath...@maltedmedia.com wrote: Subject: Re: [Finale] Help with cross-staff notes on stem above

Re: [Finale] Help with cross-staff notes on stem above and below beam

2015-02-25 Thread Barbara Touburg
Eureka. Partly. Lower the beams of the lower layer of the bottom staff (with the special tools) so that they overlap with the beams of the lower staff. The fact that the beams are flat only makes this easier. ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu

Re: [Finale] Help with cross-staff notes on stem above and below beam

2015-02-25 Thread Barbara Touburg
On 25-2-2015 20:09, Dennis Bathory-Kitsz wrote: Any other way? select the area with the selection tool, press alt-up or alt-down, depending on where the note originates. ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu

Re: [Finale] Help with cross-staff notes on stem above and below beam

2015-02-25 Thread j...@thomastudios.com
What Barbara describes is for cross-staff notes. You want them on the SAME staff. The only way to do that is using Special Tools and futz with the reverse stem and beam angle. If there are a LOT of these in your project, you could be in for a long day. J D Thomas ThomaStudios On Feb 25,

[Finale] Help with cross-staff notes on stem above and below beam

2015-02-25 Thread Dennis Bathory-Kitsz
Hi all, I have a client score with many measures showing cross-staff notes on the same stem, but with the beam between the staves. (I think it's ugly, but that's how it's written.) Either I've forgotten how to do this or there's just an old kludge (entering notes in each staff and precisely

Re: [Finale] Help with cross-staff notes on stem above and below beam

2015-02-25 Thread Dennis Bathory-Kitsz
On Wed, February 25, 2015 2:23 pm, Chuck Israels wrote: You enter the notes in the “parent” staff, use the Note Mover/Cross Staff menu selection to move the notes you want into the other staff and then use one of the Special Tools to adjust the stems to the correct side of the moved notes and

Re: [Finale] Help with cross-staff notes on stem above and below beam

2015-02-25 Thread Chuck Israels
Hi Dennis, I do it with the beam between the staves too. It’s the way I’ve seen it in some published material. I don’t find it ugly, but it can be troublesome when there are tuplets involved (where to place the numbers?, along the beam can be awkward - maybe within a bracket above the whole

Re: [Finale] Help with cross-staff notes on stem above and below beam

2015-02-25 Thread Barbara Touburg
I meant of course Lower the beams of the lower layer of the top staff ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu https://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale To unsubscribe from finale send a message to: finale-unsubscr...@shsu.edu

Re: [Finale] Help with cross-staff notes on stem above and below beam

2015-02-25 Thread Dennis Bathory-Kitsz
On Wed, February 25, 2015 3:19 pm, Barbara Touburg wrote: I meant of course Lower the beams of the lower layer of the top staff It's tricky. Depending on what PDF software is used, things are ever so slightly shifted. Here's another look, with almost everything positioned correctly now (the