Hi Daniel,
While I'm not sure why things disappeared after you manually changed them, I can tell you how to easily get what you want.
In the time signature dialog, click composite.
Here is where you enter the beaming like 3+2 or 2+3, etc.
Enter 8 as your bottom number and click OK.
Click options and set to display 5/8 or whatever time sig you want.
Be sure to check the box labeled "Use a different time signature for display". This will tell Finale to display 5/8 instead of 3+2/8.
Click OK.
Hope this helps.
Rick Neal
-----Original Message-----
From: Daniel Dorff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Sep 28, 2003 5:54 PM
To: Finale list <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [Finale] what did I do wrong?
Help? I've just entered a passage of changing meters, mostly 5/8 and 7/8, using WinFin2003a, using Simple Entry to get the notes in.
All the 5/8 and 7/8 was displayed with individual flags, so I used the / stroke in Speedy to group all the beams properly, and it worked fine, and the extracted part came out fine too.
Later I did some revising, including adding beats and bars here and there. At some point after that I noticed all the 5 and 7 bars were individually flagged again.
Two questions:
Can I tell Finale 2003a that in this document, or a range of measures, all 5/8 should be grouped 3+2 and all 7/8 should be grouped 3+2+2? If not, that's a good feature to look forward too.
If I can't set this for a document or passage, I wonder why the beaming was forgotten after revisions? Dynamics and articulation stayed intact.
Thanks for any advice!
Rick Neal Teacher, Composer, Bassist Guitarist [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://home.earthlink.net/~rickmidi
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