Hi guys,
Sibelius's Daniel Spreadbury monitors the Finale list so he emailed me
with additional info. I've reproduced it below with my replies.
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HI Daniel,
Thanks for your reply -- much appreciated.
On 26 Jun 2009, at 2:25 PM, Daniel Spreadbury wrote:
Hi Darcy,
I happened to see this post of yours on the Finale mailing list and
wanted to try to offer you some assistance:
1. To add a blank page at the end of the score, select the final
barline, and choose Layout > Break > Special Page Break. In the
dialog that appears, choose the number of pages, and away you go.
Aha! It would not have occurred to me to select the final barline. I
did a search for "blank page" in the manual, which did not turn up any
helpful info. I see now that if I had searched for "blank
pages" (plural), the "special page breaks" item is the fourth result,
but it didn't occur to me that I'd get different results searching for
"blank page" vs. "blank pages."
2. You can't centre text vertically on a page,
Feature request please!
but if you know your page dimension, you can create text that is
vertically aligned halfway down the page via the Edit Text Styles
dialog (notwithstanding your dislike of text styles!).
Actually, this doesn't work for my purposes. I would need to know not
just the page size but also the font height of whatever character or
characters I am using. If I'm using multiple lines of text I'd need to
know the total height of all of the lines.
I don't dislike Text Styles! I just disliked having to create a new
text style every time I wanted to modify the font or font size of a
single element. (I didn't know this could be done via Properties.)
3. You can edit the font, style and size of any text object directly
using the Text panel of Properties (switch on Window > Properties to
see this). You can use this to e.g. change a single piece of text
from 24pt to 27pt, or change its font, or make it bold, etc.
Gotcha.
Hope this helps,
It does and is much appreciated.
Cheers,
- Darcy
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djar...@earthlink.net
Brooklyn, NY
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