A couple of years ago I made a concerted effort to try out Sibelius. I had a lot of input from the Sib listserv and Daniel Spreadbury (sp?). Turned out that neither the whiteout fingerings nor the auto placement of fingerings before noteheads was possible. Those were both "deal busters" for me.
>Yes, definitely guitar music. > >Thanks, I'll check it out your library file. Your music has always >had a nice look, so maybe I should look at it as an engraver >instead of as a guitarist! > >I've got some articulation fingerings already defined to >automatically be placed in front of the note, but I'll check >out your settings to see if they're better than mine. I'll >probably change mine to white out as well. I don't remember >if Sibelius (which I used on the scores on the site) could >white out fingerings, but since I'm moving everything into >Finale now, I can use that setting. > > >On Jan 23, 2009, at 10:32 AM, Richard Yates wrote: > >>> From your website it looks like you are fingering guitar music. If >>> you want >> to place the fingering numbers to the left of noteheads >easiest is to >> define the finger number as 'center horizontally' but set >the handle's >> horizontal distance as about -10 EVPUs. Define the >articulation with a >> metatool. When you click on a notehead the articulation is placed at >> the vertical position of the cursor and an exact distance >horizontally >> from the notehead. >> Several >> articulations placed this way are lined up vertically. I have put a >> LIB file at http://www.yatesguitar.com/misc/Articulations12-2008.LIB >> for you if you want to see how these work. (The fingering >numbers also >> defined with 'whiteout' around them so that staff lines are erased - >> easuer to read. >> Check my website http://www.yatesguitar.com for examples of >how these >> look. >> >> Richard Yates >> >> >> >> >>> Anybody know if there is a quick way to vertically align several >>> articulations? I use them for fingerings and want to line up the >>> fingerings for a chord. Thanks >>> >>> >>> Jeff Tanner >>> Funky Bear Music >>> www.funkybearmusic.com >>> funkybearmu...@mac.com >>> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> 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
