Owain Sutton wrote:
dhbailey wrote:
Owain Sutton wrote:
Without wanting to disrupt the talk of modes, scales and all else....but should I take it that a 2/10 signature isn't possible in Finale?
I thought we had answered that a long time ago -- You are correct, the easy use of a 2/10 time signature is NOT possible in Finale.
Workaround: figure out a time signature that will give you the correct number of notes, and then hide that in your music (measure tool, select the measure with the time signature, choose Key Signature -- ALWAYS HIDE).
Find a font with numbers you want to use and construct an expression in the shape expression tool which has the numbers as you want them to be.
Assign this expression to the first note in the measure and drag it to where it will line up properly with the staff to appear to be the time signature.
You say workaround, I say kludge......let's call the whole thing off.....
It really isn't a workaround when every bar is a measure change, two thirds of them being x/10 or x/12. I can't claim to understand the intricacies of how Finale works, but I'm sure it can't be too difficult for me to replace one symbol for another, with no effect on playback? My very first post on this thread said that playback wasn't an isuue..)
Finale isn't built for what you are trying to do, so anything that will accomplish what you want is a workaround. (I thought a kludge was where a developer force-fit disparate parts of programs together so they barely worked to accomplish what they were intended to do.)
Since playback isn't an issue, you could create long measures (say one for each system) and hide the time signatures and then place graphic time signatures the way I suggest and also place graphic barlines.
You could also try creating a font that is an edited copy of whichever music font you generally use, where you replace the 4 that gets used for 4/4 time signatures with the number 10, and then if you leave the Check For Extra Notes item unchecked in speedy or simple entry, you could place whatever combination of notes you want, even if they don't add up to 4/4.
The only potential problem with that would be if you also want to be able to have a 4 in the bottom of the time signature in the same piece.
There are ways to get the result you want, but all of them are workarounds.
I don't know of any music notation program these days, except perhaps Score, which I know nothing about except that you need a DOS machine to run it, which would allow what you want easily.
-- David H. Bailey [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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