I sometimes have the impression that the Custom Line tool may be one of the most underused really powerful things in Finale. In an offline conversation with a Coda person, I complained that a major drawback of the CLT is that text (i.e., Left, Center Full, or Right) that is visible in a score could vanish in an extracted part with narrower spacing. I said this was a major flaw that needs to be fixed, at least as an option. His response was that "no one had ever asked for this since it came out in Finale 2000, so it couldn't be too big a problem."
This is what led me to think no one is really using the CLT. For example, how many people are aware that the notehead-attached gliss. is actually a Custom Line, and that you can use it with *any* custom line (and as many different ones as you want simultaneously)? "Custom Line" itself is a lousy name, because the tool goes way beyond just lines. For example, I have used the supposed "notehead gliss" tool to create fermatas that center themselves automatically over tremolos. But what good is it if the fermata disappears when the spacing gets too narrow? FWIW: I've not had this problem with fermatas over tremolos. Where I have had it is with special instructions that coincide with gliss. marks, e.g. "bend F#". The Custom Line tool would be perfect for this if only the text would not vanish in narrow spacing. I'm hoping someone else on this list uses custom lines, and will help me disabuse our friends at Coda of the notion that I'm the only one who cares whether custom line text remains visible irrespective of spacing (at least optionally). And if you haven't discovered the CLT, you have a whole new chapter ahead of you. _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
