On 21 Sep 2005 at 23:56, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I have been asked to do a choral piece, where the voices are grouped > two in the treble staff, and two in the bass staff. The two upper > voices must have stems pointing in the opposite directions, > regardless of their position on the staff. They also don't have the > same rhythmic pattern. Example: The soprano voice is all eighth > notes, while the alto voice is all quarter notes. Soprano is all > stems up, while alto is always stems down. > > The same conditions hold for the two voices in the bass staff. The > tenor voice must be all stems up, the bass all stems down.. > > Anyone know any magic tricks that will help me?
So far as I know the usual approach for this is to put the soprano in layer 1 and the alto in layer 2 (same for tenor/bass). The default layer options set layer 1 stems up when there are notes in layer 2, and layer 2 stems down. By default, rests are also bumped up or down, but I often turn that off because when the same value rest is in both voices, I like to have a single rest, normally centered, instead of two rests one above the other. But if there are far more rests that need to be up or down than there are rests that are identical, then I'd use the default rest offsets. -- David W. Fenton http://www.bway.net/~dfenton David Fenton Associates http://www.bway.net/~dfassoc _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
