Robert, One and the same as far as I can tell. From the Finale manual:
Custom lines To create a custom line Click the Smart Shape Tool W. The Smart Shape Palette appears. Option-click the Custom Line Tool ¿. The Smart Line Style Selection dialog box appears. Don Hart on 6/23/05 4:04 PM, Robert Patterson at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > So what is custom line? (I thought it too meant custom smart shape.) > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Darcy James Argue [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Sent: Thursday, June 23, 2005 08:57 PM >> To: finale@shsu.edu, [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Subject: Re: [Finale] 2006 a closer look >> >> No. Smart line = custom smart shape. >> >> - Darcy >> ----- >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Brooklyn, NY >> >> >> On 23 Jun 2005, at 4:47 PM, Robert Patterson wrote: >> >>> Isn't "smart line" and "custom line" the same thing? >>> >>> FWIW: My Settings Scrapbook plugin has been able to transfer custom >>> line libraries for a couple of years at least, in versions of Finale >>> all the way back to Fin2000. >>> >>>> -----Original Message----- >>>> From: Don Hart [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >>>> Sent: Thursday, June 23, 2005 08:06 PM >>>> To: finale@shsu.edu >>>> Subject: Re: [Finale] 2006 a closer look >>>> >>>> on 6/23/05 1:48 PM, Chuck Israels at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >>>> >>>>> >>>>> I just looked a little more carefully at the 2006 enhancements and >>>>> found one thing that will be useful to me: Smart Line libraries. >>>>> >>>>> For example, Bill Duncan has created some particularly useful Smart >>>>> Shape devices that include more elements than Finale has in its >>>>> libraries, like an 8va sign with the usual dashed line following it >>>>> but with the addition of a clearly noticeable enclosed "loco" >>>>> included at the end of the stretchable smart line. ...... >>>> >>>> Chuck, >>>> >>>> I think the Smart Line libraries will be helpful too, especially if I >>>> ever >>>> get more organized along the lines of templates and a default file. >>>> But >>>> what I wanted to point out to you is that for the above example, with >>>> the >>>> possible exception of the enclosure around "loco", the custom line >>>> tool >>>> would work quite well and is very flexible. >>>> >>>> After looking at the smart line dialog box it appears enclosures >>>> aren't >>>> readily available, so maybe that was the point of touting Bill's >>>> product. I >>>> just wanted to make sure that you and others here were aware of the >>>> custom >>>> line tool and what it could do with the above example. >>>> >>>> Don Hart >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Finale mailing list >>>> Finale@shsu.edu >>>> http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale >>>> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Finale mailing list >>> Finale@shsu.edu >>> http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale >>> >> >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Finale mailing list > Finale@shsu.edu > http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
