In Fin2007 it is under Time Signatures, subheading: Multiple Time Signatures. That's the first place I would have looked if I needed to find it. > I originally had written to look up "INDEPENDENT TIME > SIGNATURES" in the manual, but realized that, knowing > Finale's manuals, I should probably check to see if this was > helpful or not. > > I was rather shocked at how obtuse the manual is -- if you > look for INDEPENDENT TIME SIGNATURES (in the 2003 manual), > there is no entry in the index, even the user interface has > TIME SIGNATURE under INDEPENDENT ELEMENTS in the Staff > Attributes dialog. Every discussion of the topic that's ever > come up on this list that I can recall used "Independent Time > Signatures" to refer to this feature, so there really is no > reason for the manual to cite it with any other term. > > Secondly, the only way I actually found it was by going to > the topic for STAVES (because I already knew how to do it), > and finding MULTIPLE TIME SIGNATURES (and it's not so obvious > to me that this is the right choice). > > There *is* a listing in the manual under M for MULTIPLE TIME > SIGNATURES, but it doesn't actually link directly in my copy > of the manual to the topic, but to the general topic of time > signatures. > > This is typical of Finale's documentation -- a completely > lack of coordination between the terminology and indexing in > the manual the actual way things are referred to in the UI of > the program itself. > > I'm just wondering if this has been fixed in later versions > of the manual. > > -- > David W. Fenton http://dfenton.com > David Fenton Associates http://dfenton.com/DFA/ > > > _______________________________________________ > Finale mailing list > Finale@shsu.edu > http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
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