Bruce E. Clausen wrote:
Another novice question. I'm working with a score that changes meter
every now and then. I need to notate "parens, quarter note=quarter
note, or dotted half = whole note, parens." The manual, as usual,
guards these secrets. Any help is greatly appreciated.
Exactly how I would suggest you would do this would depend upon which
version of Finale you are using, which information I do not observe in a
cursory scan of your messages. The way that I know would work for all
versions is to define a shape expression, where the shape consist of
grouped characters, with the characters selected from appropriate fonts;
the quarter note, half note, and whole note from a notation font, the
parentheses and equals sign from a text font. When the expression looks
the way you want, group all the characters, and disallow stretching of
the shape. In newer versions (I think 2k4 on, but it may be a different
version than that; if the text expression designer has tabs in the
window, it's what I'm calling a newer version) you can mix font types in
a text expression. Type the characters, using the character to which
the notation element is mapped, and then change the font for the
characters representing notation elements. Thus, type the character
string " ( q = q ) " in Times Roman, into the box of the text expression
designer, then select each "q", and change the font to "maestro".
ns
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