Craig,
In the Special Tools, choose the Tie Tool (it's the second one from the bottom
on the left on my default palette.) Make sure you are in the same layer as the
note. Click the note in the second ending. Three handles should appear. Click
any one of the handles and hit command-F (on a Mac.
Craig,
FWIW, I WAS able to create a 2nd ending tie in Finale 2012 Mac using the
option-click method from Speed Entry. I then could use the Special Tools Ties
tool to flip the tie in either direction.
If you're not able to do this, I suspect file corruption. Because it DOES work.
J D Thomas
In the tie tool, the flip command was grayed out. I was able to drag
the middle handle to approximate the look of a flip. But I could not
get it to look like half a tie (i.e. the left handle being lower than
the right handle. The left and right handles seemed to do exactly the
same thing
If you copy the contents of the 1st ending (with a tie ending on the
first note) into the 2nd ending, the correct tie end will appear on
the first note of the 2nd ending. The ending/repeats must be created
before you copy the music.
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Finale
Maybe this is a Mac versus Windows thing, but that doesn't work for me.
As I read the doc, it seems to me that this command is supposed to do a
FULL tie back to the previous note. And that is exactly what it does on
my system -- ties back to the last note in the first ending, which is
wrong
Actually, I had not known about the option= keystroke until Chuck mentioned it.
Haven't had a chance to test it yet.
If the tie is in the wrong direction, can you use the flip option in Special
Tools to get it right?
J D Thomas
ThomaStudios
On Aug 1, 2012, at 11:43 AM, Craig Parmerlee wrote:
No, I could not find any way to flip the tie. I ended up just removing
it because it was worst than having no end-tie at all.
The last note before the endings was second space with the stem up as
normal. I didn't override anything. The tie to the right of the last
measure before the endings
This is something that has always bugged me. There are many cases where
the last note before an ending ties, and the tie goes into the first
note of BOTH the first and second ending. In fact, that is the normal
case of a tie. In my view, it is invalid to right a tie going into the
first
It usually works for me to enter Opt./= on the first note of the second ending.
That is supposed to put a backwards half tie on the note and usually does.
There have been times (perhaps with older updated files) where that doesn't
work, and I have to use a hand slur adjusted to resemble the
Another way that often (but not always) works is to option-click in the 1st
measure of the 2nd ending (in the Speedy Tool) and check the Tie End box in
the geeky window that opens up.
John Blane
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Using the Speedy Entry tool, option-click on the measure in the 2nd ending
where you want the tie. This brings up a rather extensive dialog box with
many, many checkboxes. At the bottom there is a checkbox option called Tie
End. Check it. When you go back to your score, you'll see the tie.
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From: Chuck Israels cisra...@comcast.net
To: finale@shsu.edu
Sent: Tuesday, July 31, 2012 9:34 AM
Subject: Re: [Finale] Ties into second endings
It usually works for me to enter Opt./= on the first note of the second
ending. That is supposed to put a backwards half tie on the note and usually
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