At 2:03 PM 09/26/02, David W. Fenton wrote: >Can anyone come up with a scenario in which that is even a >*marginally* useful option?
Marginally useful, yes. If you find yourself in a situation where you want Finale to consistently give you an extra bit of space between two particular notes (perhaps you've got a wide text expression that need to appear above it, but checking note expressions in the Music Spacing Options causes other problems), you can copy the music of that measure to another layer, add an extraneous accidental or two to create the needed space, and make it invisible. Obviously there are numerous ways to tweak spacing, and we've all used many of them. An advantage I see in this one is that it will continue to be in place no matter how many times you adjust and respace the music, and although it's weird and kludgy, it's relatively quick to do. I doubt I'd do it often, but I can see keeping it in my mental bag of tricks for an occasion when it was the most efficient fix for an unusual situation. The larger issue here, I think, is that with Layer Options, you're forced to make layer 4 your invisible layer throughout the piece. If you can adapt your habits around that, great. Others may have enjoyed the flexibility of using layers according to a different plan. I have occasionally encountered a situation where I really do need all four layers in the same bar. If I had my entire document set with layer 4 to be ignored in spacing, then that would have been problematic. Finale has a lot of options which you'll leave alone most of the time but can change for special occasions. For this feature to be more useful, you need to be able to turn it off and on on a measure-by-measure basis, and the logical way to incorporate that is in a staff style. In addition to just blanked-out measures, there could be times when you want to turn affects-spacing off for some visible measure. >From Randy's post, I gather that Coda agrees in principle, but backed off for practical reasons. mdl _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
