At 5:48 PM 01/31/03, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Let's say I have a staff with 4 measures. > >On the 2nd measure, I want to input text in the middle of the staff. >How can I erase the lines just for one or two bars so that we can >clearly see the text inside ?
Others have mentioned staff styles, which does what you ask for. But depending on what your purpose here is, you might want to try using an opaque expression instead. Create a new expression with whatever text you like. Check the "Enclosure" box to get to the Enclosure dialog. Drag the border to whatever size you like. Check "opaque" and set the line thickness to zero. You can now use this expression to blank out whatever is behind it. Depending on what you're trying to blank, you may need to attach the expression to the system below and drag it upward to blank out the system above. The advantage of this method is that you can make the edge of the blanked out region anywhere on the staff, rather than right at a barline. You can also make the border a circle or ellipse instead of a plain rectangle. If the text you want in the blank space is more than one line, you won't be able to put it in the expression. Instead, just make the expression blank and use it for the white space only; then write a text block on top of it. mdl _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
