on 6/18/05 4:23 PM, Christopher Smith wrote: > If you have locked the systems (in Mass Edit, little non-printing > padlocks show up in the right-hand margin) then Finale is prevented > from re-flowing crowded measures to the next system. Select All and > find Unlock Systems in the Mass Edit menu (on Mac the command for this > is command-U; I don't know the PC keystroke) then do what Hal suggested > and Update Layout for it all to take effect. > > In reality, though, the algorithm for spacing when lyrics are taken > into account is badly designed. You may have to make quite a lot of > manual adjustments in any case, no matter how you end up spacing > automatically. Having a long syllable like "through" on a short > rhythmic value messes the entire measure up. Turning OFF lyric > collisions, respacing just that measure with Mass Edit 4, then manually > adjusting (including resizing the measure) is the only way I know of to > work it out. TG Tools has some additional help, but I don't imagine you > have that.
Thanks, Christopher, for the additional info! This was a song I originally scanned in, and I *thought* when I chose the Page Format and then "Reformat Pages" it erased all the little padlock thingies. But maybe it really didn't remove that formatting... Anyway - I checked and my version (2005) does have "TG Tools"... Thanks again! Jacki _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
