Re: [Finale] Finale's Music Spacing

[Éric Dussault]

Le 06-09-06 à 15:47, Fiskum, Steve a écrit : Spacing is a hard thing to discuss. It comes with experience and understanding of the extra tools available. Did you know that some scores can look just fine by using Time Signature spacing with all of the measures staying at the same width? It really depends on your project and what type of spacing needs to be applied. Spacing Octavos vs. spacing Concert Band music are very different. I am thankful that at least within Finale we have options...not so in Sib. I am leery when I hear people asking MM to "try to fix" this issue, because spacing is so personal. What could be fixed for your issues could make my workflow a disaster. Personally I believe there are different spacing concerns with every piece and that Finale does a good job getting the initial spacing setup to start engraving. If there are any improvements: I would like to have 2 choices for "Min. Distance Between Notes with Ties" 1. Notes with ledger lines 2. Notes without ledger lines I can understand your frustration but with a little extra work you can get the spacing options you prefer. Instead of taking 2 days to work on this issue with MM...take those same days and try creating your own spacing allotments. You might be surprised how well it can work for you. My 2 cents (ducking from the flames). Steve I agree that any situation is different and there are always a way to make spacing look ok in Finale. But it was not Dejan's question. We know that there are tweakings and workaround in Finale, but he was pointing out a specific example, very relevant, where Score's music spacing was great (in general a big strengh of Score), and Finale, Sibelius and Graphire Music Press more of less had the same inferior spacing. Most of us will agree that having music spacing that does not distort or alter the visual duration of notes is something desirable. Why not hope that Finale on two consecutive measures of sixteenth notes have them spaced more regularly? That's the point of Dejan and I totally agree with him on this. Are there many of us that would like default music spacing to be more beautiful? It's strange that this debate always result in people showing their own workarounds, thus escaping the real thread (same thing on MakeMusic's forum). Éric

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