Just to clarify Johannes's post. Finale does not directly support non-aligned barlines. However, Staff Styles provide a fairly simple workaround, as long as the two staves have a reasonable lowest common denominator where the barlines coincide. The only time you'll be reduced to graphically placing them is if the barlines never (or rarely) coincide. Eg.: 2/4 at quarter = 71 vs. 2/4 at quarter = 64. Staff styles will work well for, e.g. 2/4 vs. 4/4 (where the quarter is the same). Even 2/4 vs. 3/4 (with the same quarter) is managable with staff styles unless it is an extended passage. (For 2/4 against 3/4, the internal meter would have to be 1/4, and you would use a staff style to hide the barlines you didn't want to see.)
Finale *does* support different time sigs in different staves, and supports them quite well. (I'm speaking of different time sigs with coinciding barlines like 12/8 against 4/4.) Johannes Gebauer wrote: > > On 22.06.2002 16:20 Uhr, Michael Edwards wrote > > > I do occasionally need things like bitonal or custom key > > signatures, or bar-lines occurring in different places in different staves, or > > different time signatures in different staves > > Just be warned: Finale doesn't support this. -- Robert Patterson http://RobertGPatterson.com _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
