Re: [Finale] Music spacing and hidden elements

2015-03-07 Thread SN jef chippewa
never used 2008, but if there is only one other layer (1?) you can select "show active layer only" and space. >Is it possible (Fin2008) to have the music spacing ignore the hidden >elements in a linked part (hidden notes in layer 2, and hidden lyrics, >though I think only the former affect the s

Re: [Finale] music spacing in PT affecting PT and SC

2012-03-05 Thread SN jef chippewa
ok i was wrong on the last point (deselecting auto-update layout), applying to a measure/region seems to affect the entire rest of the SC but not the measures selected in the PT... g. At 15:53 +0100 3/5/12, SN jef chippewa wrote: >ok so this has pissed me off more than once, i

Re: [Finale] music spacing

2011-01-14 Thread Steve Parker
Ok. Although I find that update layout cures all manner of other gremlins and evils too. Steve P. On 14 Jan 2011, at 14:30, Richard Yates wrote: No. Update Layout affects only the width and number of measures in systems. It has no effect on relative spacing adjustments inside a measure (re

Re: [Finale] music spacing

2011-01-14 Thread Darcy James Argue
You can and should turn on Automatic Update Layout in the Program Options. Cheers, - DJA - WEB: http://www.secretsocietymusic.org On 14 Jan 2011, at 5:57 AM, Steve Parker wrote: > I can't live without an Update Layout every three seconds - Finale behaves > hideously without it! ___

RE: [Finale] music spacing

2011-01-14 Thread Richard Yates
> Is it 100% correct that it [Update Layout] only changes measure widths? If "incorporate manual positioning" is checked, then tweaks to spacing inside a measure are preserved proportionately when Update Layout changes measure widths. > Is it possible to lock measure widths? Not that I know of.

Re: [Finale] music spacing

2011-01-14 Thread Steve Parker
On 14 Jan 2011, at 03:18, SN jef chippewa wrote: i never use auto-spacing, so maybe i'm not the right person to comment on this, but doesn't it only affect measures you "enter" (speedy/simple)? so you could do half a score and adjust and know that the only changes to what you have already

Re: [Finale] music spacing

2011-01-14 Thread Steve Parker
On 14 Jan 2011, at 00:59, Richard Yates wrote: You can still use automatic music spacing (for instance in Speedy Entry or adding articulations) on later measures without it affecting earlier spacing UNTIL you do an Update Layout for the whole document. I can't live without an Update Layou

RE: [Finale] music spacing

2011-01-13 Thread SN jef chippewa
i never use auto-spacing, so maybe i'm not the right person to comment on this, but doesn't it only affect measures you "enter" (speedy/simple)? so you could do half a score and adjust and know that the only changes to what you have already adjusted after auto-spacing is selected would only

RE: [Finale] music spacing

2011-01-13 Thread Richard Yates
You can still use automatic music spacing (for instance in Speedy Entry or adding articulations) on later measures without it affecting earlier spacing UNTIL you do an Update Layout for the whole document. If 'incorporate' manual positioning is checked, the only spacing that will be interfered with

Re: [Finale] music spacing

2011-01-13 Thread Jari Williamsson
On 2011-01-14 01:38, Steve Parker wrote: Is it correct then that if I write half a score and move elements around that I then have no access to automatic music spacing for the rest of the score unless I'm prepared to have it interfere with what I've already done? That's correct. Best regards

Re: [Finale] music spacing

2011-01-13 Thread Steve Parker
Thanks for reply - this clarifies it. Is it correct then that if I write half a score and move elements around that I then have no access to automatic music spacing for the rest of the score unless I'm prepared to have it interfere with what I've already done? Or am I thinking wrong? Steve

Re: [Finale] music spacing

2011-01-13 Thread Jari Williamsson
On 2011-01-13 19:24, Steve Parker wrote: I have music spacing set to 'Incorporate' changes I've manually made. It seems to ignore some of these - most annoyingly barline moves. Does anyone know exactly what is incorporated? I also find that 'update layout' seems to move some things back too. D

Re: [Finale] music spacing for expressions in F2k9?

2009-06-07 Thread RL
tings Raimund Lintzen - Original Message - From: "Darcy James Argue" To: Sent: Sunday, June 07, 2009 9:20 PM Subject: Re: [Finale] music spacing for expressions in F2k9? I have never, in all my years using Finale, checked the box for including expressions in spacing, and I

Re: [Finale] music spacing for expressions in F2k9?

2009-06-07 Thread Darcy James Argue
I have never, in all my years using Finale, checked the box for including expressions in spacing, and I can't think of a circumstance where I'd want to. Imagine a measure-long thirty-second-note run beginning with a "fff" expression -- would anyone seriously entertain the idea of increasing

Re: [Finale] music spacing for expressions in F2k9?

2009-06-07 Thread David W. Fenton
On 7 Jun 2009 at 10:08, Eric Dannewitz wrote: > I do find that sometimes crescendos/decrescendos > sometimes run into the dynamic marking.. Well, has *any* version of Finale taken care of that? I'm way behind, still using WinFin2003, and I've never had collision avoidance of that kind. But

Re: [Finale] music spacing for expressions in F2k9?

2009-06-07 Thread Eric Dannewitz
That does seem rather stupid of MakeMusic to implement new Expressions but then not have anyway to avoid collisions of them. Not that that is a HUGE problem, but I do find that sometimes crescendos/decrescendos sometimes run into the dynamic marking.. On Jun 7, 2009, at 9:40 AM, David

Re: [Finale] music spacing for expressions in F2k9?

2009-06-07 Thread David W. Fenton
On 7 Jun 2009 at 11:30, Christopher Smith wrote: > Because of the new expressions, they aren't attached to items any > more, so they can't be taken into account for music spacing. Um... How in the world can this make for better-looking output? It means manually spacing everything. Sibelius j

Re: [Finale] music spacing for expressions in F2k9?

2009-06-07 Thread Christopher Smith
Hi Raimund, It doesn't work. They should have removed the option (and have in 2010, by the report they sent) but the option is still there in 2009, like your appendix; a relic from a previous stage of evolution that doesn't do anything and even may cause harm. Because of the new expressio

Re: [Finale] Music spacing problem

2008-04-17 Thread Christopher Smith
On Apr 17, 2008, at 7:24 AM, dc wrote: Christopher Smith écrit: Copy the measure to a new file. If it spaces correctly, then it is file corruption and you should take my steps. If it still spaced incorrectly, then somehow you copied the problem over with the entries and it is not for sure that

Re: [Finale] Music spacing problem

2008-04-17 Thread Christopher Smith
On Apr 17, 2008, at 4:31 AM, dc wrote: Thanks, Christopher. Assuming this is happening in a measure with only one layer, then there is file corruption. Clear the measure stack, delete the measure stack, then add it back in again and re-enter the notes. If this doesn't do it, then there will h

Re: [Finale] Music spacing problem

2008-04-16 Thread Christopher Smith
On Apr 16, 2008, at 4:25 PM, dc wrote: I have at least one measure in a score I'm working on where the music won't space correctly: the accidentals collide with the preceding notes. It looks like the music spacing is ignoring the accidentals. I seem to recall someone else had the same prob

RE: [Finale] Music spacing problem

2008-04-16 Thread Lee Actor
> I have at least one measure in a score I'm working on where the > music won't > space correctly: the accidentals collide with the preceding > notes. It looks > like the music spacing is ignoring the accidentals. I seem to recall > someone else had the same problem. What is the solution? > > Thank

Re: [Finale] Music Spacing Problem

2007-09-20 Thread Christopher Smith
On Sep 20, 2007, at 4:01 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [Finale 2002] I have a passage with some very short notes at the end of the bar, which Finale will not space out adequately (using note spacing the notes get squashed, time-sig and beat spacing are too wide). I can fix this problem by

Re: [Finale] Music Spacing Problem with Tied Notes

2005-08-14 Thread Mark D Lew
On Aug 14, 2005, at 2:37 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (Finale 2002) I have been experiencing odd spacing between notes that, so far, appears to affect a single quaver (eighth note) tied to another note with stems up. These notes, using “note spacing”, are too far apart.

Re: [Finale] Music Spacing Problem with Tied Notes

2005-08-14 Thread Johannes Gebauer
Michael, what is the "minimum distance between items" set to? If you like you can send a file to me personally and tell me where the problems are, and I will have a look at it tomorrow. It's hard to tell from the distance. Johannes [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: (Finale 2002) I have been exper

Re: [Finale] music spacing 2K4

2004-08-17 Thread Darcy James Argue
On 17 Aug 2004, at 03:59 PM, Andrew Stiller wrote: Hasn't it always been the case that empty measures are spaced according to either the Spacing Width Table or the Reference Width + Scaling Factor --...? - Darcy I don't even know what those things are. All I know is that in FinMac 2K2 and earli

Re: [Finale] music spacing 2K4

2004-08-17 Thread Andrew Stiller
Hasn't it always been the case that empty measures are spaced according to either the Spacing Width Table or the Reference Width + Scaling Factor --...? - Darcy I don't even know what those things are. All I know is that in FinMac 2K2 and earlier, if I set my minimum width however low, that's h

Re: [Finale] music spacing 2K4

2004-08-17 Thread Darcy James Argue
Hasn't it always been the case that empty measures are spaced according to either the Spacing Width Table or the Reference Width + Scaling Factor -- unless, of course, the minimum measure width is *larger* than that? I always have my minimum measure width set to zero, but empty measures in 4/4