At 3:02 PM 06/09/03, Mr. Liudas Motekaitis wrote: >Sure, it's called Tracking: the distance between characters in >one-onethousandths of the current point size.
In FinMac2002, tracking is non-functional for lyrics. It changes their appearance in the Edit Lyrics box, but it has no effect in the score. (The same is true for superscript and baseline shift, but for those there are other ways of adjusting the vertical position.) Is this fixed in v2003? I'd very much like to see tracking implemented for lyrics. I'd also like to see it implemented for text expressions, which would make it easier when I want something like "c r e s c e n d o". As far as I can tell, tracking only works in text boxes. Even there there are some peculiarities. It only functions to change the space between two characters if the two have the same tracking value. This means that if you're using tracking for spot kerning on large display type (which I do), you're fine until you have two adjacent pairs that you want to tweak, at which point you can have one or the other but not both unless you move them identically. I've usually been able to fudge my way around that, but I remember one French title starting with "L'A..." which I couldn't make look good. (Of course, this wouldn't be an issue at all if Finale read and implemented kerning data built into the font, but I suppose that's asking too much....) Also, the centering algorithm doesn't take tracking into account, so if you've got a text block set to center it will come out wonky if tracking is applied non-uniformly to the text. All things considered, these are minor complaints compared to various other requests I'd make, and the tracking that does exist is more useful than not. Still, it would be nice if it all worked perfectly. mdl FinMac2002 _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
