On 16.07.2002 9:34 Uhr, Mark D. Lew wrote > I'd be interested to know how others choose letters for their articulation > metatools for multiple placement of the same symbol. > > My own scheme (which I'm not necessarily recommending to anyone else...) is > that my main metatool is the first letter of the name, and the secondary > metatool is the first consonant sound in the second syllable of the name. > > Thus, staccato is S and K, tenuto is T and N, accent is A and X, fermata is > F and M. (The vertical accent is V and W, so it's an exception to the > rule.)
I have an even stranger layout I suppose, mainly because I have dynamics in the articulations, as well. F is f(orte), to each side of F I have mf and ff. P is p(iano), O is pp, but for mp I had to use I. Underneath each of these are reduced size dynamics (for editorial additions). I kept 1 for the staccato (from earlier times when only the numerics could be metatools) and 2 is the Mozart "dagger" or caret. 3 and 4 are variants of the staccato dot (one for stemside no beam, and one for stemside with beam). 4 I also use (depending on what I am editing) for accent. If I have to do fingerings I use the bottom row on the keyboard. I change my metatools quite a lot depending on the context, simply because I am running out of keys. Johannes -- http://www.musikmanufaktur.com http://www.camerata-berolinensis.de _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
