At 11:15 AM 7/16/02 -0400, Charles Small wrote:

>Bob Clifton wrote:
> >
> > The beams for a group of four sixteenth notes in Layer Two are partially
> > obscuring the notehead for an eighth note in Layer One.  I thought, well
> > I'll just nudge the beam(s) up or down a little and that will fix it
> > (though I'd never encountered the problem before).  I got out the Special
> > Tools palette and found that I could change just about everything but what
> > I needed to change.  I could change the stem lengths, but they were not
> > then attached to the beam(s).  I could move the secondary beam toward or
> > away from the primary beam.  I could squish the beams down to a point. I
> > could change the angle or flatten them to horizontal.  About the only thing
> > I could not do was find a handle for the beam(s) and nudge it vertically up
> > or down.
> >
>
>
>    I may be missing something in your question, but it seems to me you're 
> just about
>there.
>Special Tools --> Beam Angle Tool gives two handles on each beam. Drag the 
>right one
>to change the angle, drag the left one to move the whole beam vertically. 
>(At least
>that's how it works on Fin.2000c, Mac) Is this what you need?
>  Cheers,  Ch.S.

That's what I need.  I hadn't actually tried that tool because it is named 
"Beam Angle" and I didn't want to change the angle.

I am now happily beamed up.  Thanks a million, Scotty ... I mean, Charles.

Bob C.

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