Brian, your problem is caused by a "known bug". Passages with independent time signatures are not spaced correctly. The bug first appeared in Finale 2000a: if you have a copy of Finale 2000 (or an earlier version), you will find that it does the spacing correctly in this situation.
The only workaround I know is to use tuplets instead of independent time signatures. You've just got Fin 2003 so you must be on Windows (the Mac version isn't out yet): you'll find that this particular problem still exists in the new version. So write to [EMAIL PROTECTED] requesting that this bug be fixed! Best wishes, Michael Cook At 18:43 -0400 9/07/2002, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >OK, I have tried to work this out on my own. . . > >This is for a large orchestra piece. > >I have a passage in 12/4 - and I want 3 staves to go into 4/4 at the same >time (bar=bar) - when I do this either the 4/4 bars get cramped, or the 12/4 >bars do. Any help? PLEASE! (This is driving me a little crazy. . .) I >have set these 3 lines as having Independent Time Signatures in the >instrument dialog box. > >Fin 2001d WIN98 > >(I just got Fin 2003 - would this be better in this version?) > >Oh yeah - one other thing, when I sometimes work with the tuplet tool the >Finale application just shuts off. Only sometimes. > >Many thanks for any help! > >Brian > > >Brian St. John >Resident Conductor, Longmont Symphony Orchestra >Music Director, Longmont Youth Symphony >Music Director, Timberline Symphony Orchestra >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >_______________________________________________ >Finale mailing list >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >http://mail.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
