James: I saw only one public response to your query about suppressing Courtesy Time Signatures and that one, which described the measure tool option controlling time signature display, did not really address your problem. I was interested in reading the responses you received since I've faced this problem myself and have not found a really satisfactory solution.
The workarounds I have used include suppressing the time signature in the following measure (either using the measure tool option or selectively staff by staff by defining a "No Time Signature"staff style). This gets rid of the courtesy time signature, but then a shape expression must be defined to imitate the suppressed time signature in the following measure. The following measure must also be respaced. I have used an alternative method at the start of a new movement. It involves the insertion of a "phantom" measure between the old and new movements. This phantom measure has the same time signature as the preceding movement, so the courtesy signature doesn't show up after that movement ends. A staff style can be created for the phantom measure to hide the empty measure rests, the measure tool can hide the barline as well as set the width to zero (actually, I use a very small positive width to make the dummy measure easy to edit if necessary). Since the new movement has its own measure numbers, a new region must be set in any case. As you can see, both these methods have their problems. Did you receive better advice privately. If so, I think you should post it on the list. That's what the list is for. Best regards, Rob Jenks ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------ From: "James O'Briant" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "'Finale Sam Houston List'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Finale Yahoo List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: RE: [Finale] Courtesy Time Signatures Date: Sun, 27 Jul 2003 19:46:30 -0700 Thanks to all for the public and private replies to my query.! As a relatively new (9 months) user of Finale, after seven years on ENCORE, I'm still discovering the flexibility of this program -- and thus, the accompanying complexity. Thanks again! _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
