Re: [Finale] Need help with split stems on one staff

2005-09-24 Thread Bruce K H Kau
Bill, The suggestions you've received are good ones - use separate layers and force the stem direction. I suspect you are being told how to layout the voices. If it were up to me, however, given that the rhythmic patterns are not the same, I would split it into four staves. Combining SA and

Re: [Finale] Need help with split stems on one staff

2005-09-24 Thread John Howell
At 8:31 PM -1000 9/23/05, Bruce K H Kau wrote: I suspect you are being told how to layout the voices. If it were up to me, however, given that the rhythmic patterns are not the same, I would split it into four staves. Combining SA and TB when rhythmic patterns differ is usually only done to

Re: [Finale] Need help with split stems on one staff

2005-09-22 Thread Mark D Lew
On Sep 21, 2005, at 9:03 PM, David W. Fenton wrote: So far as I know the usual approach for this is to put the soprano in layer 1 and the alto in layer 2 (same for tenor/bass). The default layer options set layer 1 stems up when there are notes in layer 2, and layer 2 stems down. By default,

Re: [Finale] Need help with split stems on one staff

2005-09-22 Thread David W. Fenton
On 21 Sep 2005 at 23:42, Mark D Lew wrote: On Sep 21, 2005, at 9:03 PM, David W. Fenton wrote: So far as I know the usual approach for this is to put the soprano in layer 1 and the alto in layer 2 (same for tenor/bass). The default layer options set layer 1 stems up when there are notes

Re: [Finale] Need help with split stems on one staff

2005-09-22 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 12:38 PM 09/22/2005, David W. Fenton wrote: On 21 Sep 2005 at 23:42, Mark D Lew wrote: I like to leave the rest option as is. Then wherever the same value rest is in both voices, I type asterisk in each layer to re-center them. Oy, I didn't know there was a keyboard shortcut for this!

[Finale] Need help with split stems on one staff

2005-09-21 Thread BillSincl
Hello Finale; I have been asked to do a choral piece, where the voices are grouped two in the treble staff, and two in the bass staff. The two upper voices must have stems pointing in the opposite directions, regardless of their position on the staff. They also don't have the same rhythmic

Re: [Finale] Need help with split stems on one staff

2005-09-21 Thread David W. Fenton
On 21 Sep 2005 at 23:56, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have been asked to do a choral piece, where the voices are grouped two in the treble staff, and two in the bass staff. The two upper voices must have stems pointing in the opposite directions, regardless of their position on the staff.