Re: [Finale] Expression positioning bug

[Michael Cook]

This is one of those curious Finale "features". While we were 
beta-testing 2004 I chanced on this and reported it as a bug, but it 
is actually meant to work that way. The three settings Top Note, 
Bottom Note and Vertical Click Position are designed so that in each 
of the three cases the expression will be entered at the height where 
the user clicks. At this point, there is no visible difference 
between the three settings. If, after clicking the expression in the 
score, the user presses the "clear" (or backspace) key, the 
expression will jump to either the top note, the bottom note or the 
top staff line. If you import an older Finale file into Finale 2004 
or 2005, the expressions will have the setting "Top Note".

Logically (for me at least!) all three settings deserve to be called 
"Vertical Click Position", since that is where the expression does 
appear in the score. The three settings would then be called:

Vertical Click Position (relative to top note)
Vertical Click Position (relative to bottom note)
Vertical Click Position (relative to top staff line)
Another possibility would be to rename the setting that is at present 
called "Vertical Click Position" to "Top Staff Line", but this 
wouldn't make it clear that this setting (and the "Top Note" and 
"Bottom Note" settings) functions in a different way from the other 
expression positioning settings.

Maybe someone else has a good suggestion for concise names for the 
expression positioning settings that really give the user a clear 
idea as to how these settings function?

Michael Cook
WinFin2004b
When I create a note expression with vertical positioning set to top 
note or bottom note and then place that expression in the score with 
a metatool, the expression actually places itself vertically at the 
click position. I have to right-click and choose Remove Manual 
Adjustments to get the expression to actually position itself 
relative to top/bottom note as requested.

(The difference from defining vertical position as Vertical Click 
Position is that an expression attached to top/bottom note will move 
vertically if the note is moved.)

Can anyone confirm this? Is it fixed in 2005?
Thanks,
Aaron.
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