[Finale] Hiding notes with TG Tools

[John Bell]

This is a bit complicated to describe so if you get bored or confused please hit the delete key and don't feel bad about it. However if you do have any idea that might help I'd be very grateful.

Here goes: Banjo part, notated thus: chord symbols, beamed 1/8th notes, beam above notes, top note of each chord given, stem continuing down past note. My method: enter top note plus the fourth below (playback doesn't matter), force stems up then change the lower notehead to a blank character. Fine. Did two bars this way using the Note Shape Tool, then realised that for the rest of the piece it would be much quicker to use TG Tools Modify.... Special Modifications....Nth note in chord (from top)....2....Change notehead to....8 [in Maestro (mac) that is a blank]. This worked perfectly.

BUT, when I made the score into a pdf file, flags showed on all the 1/8th notes. Interestingly (well you might not agree about that) the ones I had done using the Note Shape Tool were OK, it was the ones using TG Tools Modify that were the problem.

Obviously I can think of solutions, but I wonder what TG tools is doing differently to using the Note Shape Tool.

If you got this far thanks. If you have any ideas then thanks a million.

John

(Fin Mac 2003a - TG Tools latest version I believe)
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