I seem to be singing the same old song but, at the risk of becoming
annoying with this, Bill Duncan's new articulation font set has left,
right, up, and down arrowheads designed to be used for this, and they
look good to me.
Some of Bill's things have become so much a part of the look of my
Finale work that I'd be loathe to do without them. It's difficult to
imagine that anyone would need all the things he has created all the
time (lots of harp stuff, for instance, and many modern notation
symbols), but some have become nearly indispensable to me - the chord
font, for sure, the nice soft slashes and rhythmic notation heads,
the percussion note head shapes that align correctly (vertically - as
Finale's native ones do not), brackets that are selectable by
interval and are therefor shaped correctly (vertically) and which
align correctly horizontally (except when there are accidentals, in
which case they sometimes must be tweaked), various useful smart
lines, drop shadow enclosures, and some others I can't think of at
the moment. Some of these things are particularly useful to my
style, which hovers between the bold commercial look, where mistakes
cost time and money, and the more refined "classical" look that
assumes rehearsal time and a little foreknowledge of the music.
Anyway, my stuff looks the way it does because I have Bill's
additions to Finale to work with, and I like them a lot.
No, Bill doesn't pay me, but he's been endlessly helpful.
Chuck
On Feb 27, 2006, at 7:05 PM, Brennon Bortz wrote:
Speaking of arrowheads, has anyone found an arrowhead to work as a
direction
indicator for rolled-chord markings? I have made my own triangle
to stick
on the top of the default rolled-chord articulation, but is there
no way to
have it automatically placed?
--Brennon
On 2/27/06 9:53 AM, "Eric Dannewitz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Have you looked at chapter 25 in the Finale manual? If you follow the
tutorials in there, you can do exactly what you want.
Dragos Oltean wrote:
I want to make a custom line with arrow to end point.
In smart line designer window I have preset arrowhead. I like number
3., but is small for me.
In custom arrowhead designer, i want to import a graphic, but the
tool
for import graphic is disabled. Why? In Shape Designer Menu,
arrowhead
is disabled. Why?
Thanks,
Dragos
F2006c, WinXP
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