On 26 Mar 2004 at 17:32, Aaron Sherber wrote: > At 05:08 PM 03/26/2004, David W. Fenton wrote: > >Why should invisible music affect spacing? > > I can think of several reasons. For example, I was recently working on > a section of music in which the only way to get the measures visually > correct involved visible notes in layer 1 and visible rests and hidden > notes in layer 2. (It's a long story, but it's a workaround for > Finale's limitations in certain beaming styles.) However, because > Finale didn't take the hidden notes into account, getting this whole > thing to space correctly involved yet another set of hidden notes in > layer 3 that I could make visible as a group when needed to do > spacing. In this case, I would have liked it very much if hidden notes > affected spacing.
All well and good, but shouldn't the default be that non-visible notes *don't* affect spacing? Even if you have the option to make them have an effect when you want to? The other problem is that the way it *does* affect the spacing is not the same as it would be if the blank notation were visible. I just can't figure out how it can be by design to have invisible notes affect spacing, but only sort of. > In fact, Music Spacing has an option to avoid collision with hidden > notes. I would have expected that checking this would have solved my > problem, but it didn't. I guess I'm not sure what that option is for. But that doesn't apply to blank notation, only to notes that are made invisible with the "O" keyboard shortcut. -- David W. Fenton http://www.bway.net/~dfenton David Fenton Associates http://www.bway.net/~dfassoc _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
