The way around it is to enter the passage with the dots and the second in different layers, one note each layer. Space it. Then turn off auto-space, enter the extra notes in the chord, and exit the bar without ever respacing it again.
Christopher
At 3:36 PM -0500 3/26/04, David W. Fenton wrote:
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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