Is my version of Finale set up wrong, or are there simply lots of 
things about music spacing that have gone wrong in the last couple of 
versions of Finale? First there was the blank notation affecting 
spacing, and now I see all sorts of problems with spacing between 
layers with seconds and dotted notes and accidentals.

To see the problem:

1. in layer 1, enter a note.

2. in layer 2, enter a note a step away lower than the note in 
layer 1.

3. apply spacing metatool 4.

Everything's fine!

Repeat the process, but make it a dotted note, and everything spaces 
fine (the dots are, properly, aligned, even though the notes are, 
properly, offset).

But an accidental into the mix on the lower note or on both notes, 
and everything is fine.

Here's the problem:

If layer 2 is a chord instead of a single note, the spacing is 
completely wrong -- the layer 1 note is spaced by itself and the 
layer 2 chord is spaced way out to the right, as though the two 
didn't occur in the same metric position.

I'm working on piano music and this kind of thing is quite common, 
and it's causing me to do far more manual editing than I ever had to 
do in the past, and I'm having to move the notes, the accidentals 
*and* the dots.

Can anyone confirm this?

I'm using WinFin2K3.

-- 
David W. Fenton                        http://www.bway.net/~dfenton
David Fenton Associates                http://www.bway.net/~dfassoc

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