Christopher,
First, there is a possibility that our respective installations are
behaving a bit differently; while I own 2k7, it's not presently
installed, and is not close enough at hand to conveniently do so, so
I've done my investigations in 2k9.
I doubt file corruption, partly I've had corrupted files, and they
refuse to load. My impression is that there is a mechanism of some type
in a Finale score file that tests for file integrity, and the fact that
I can load Richard's file without a warning or error message leads me to
believe that this is not an instance of file corruption.
As to copying the contents of the file to a new document, I did this
early on, and found the behavior the same in the file copied to, as in
Richard's original.
Subsequent investigation to my previous post disproves some of what I
wrote earlier. But here is something I found subsequently. When I open
Richard's score, and before doing anything else, select the measure
tool, and open the measure attribute dialog tool, I see that there is
one handle at the upper right bar line in each measure; there is no beat
chart. As soon as I edit the measure (and in 2k9, it makes no difference
whether the edit is done in simple or speedy entry), a beat chart is
created for the edited measure, although there is no duration for the
beats (which one can examine in 2k9 by selecting "document options >
music spacing > spacing widths > duration allotments). Accordingly, all
of the durations have a width of zero, and stack together.
As confirmation, using hints from some of your posts, I was again able
to reproduce the behavior Richard initially reported. When I
subsequently loaded a music spacing library, (I tried two, and both
worked) the problem dissappeared, and the music appears the way one
would expect.
I strongly suspect that Richard's problem will disappear when he loads a
music spacing library to the file.
ns
christopher.sm...@videotron.ca wrote:
Hi Noel,
Unless our programs are behaving differently (which is entirely possible!), I
think I am right. The problem is that music spacing (except for time signature
spacing) is not working. When auto music spacing is turned on, the symptom
occurs every time a Speedy frame is exited. When auto spacing is turned off,
you don't see the symptom right away, but the problem is still there because NO
music spacing works except time sig spacing. There is still no way to space the
piece properly (unless he hand tweaks EVERY note in every measure, gah!)
Are you saying that when you turn OFF auto spacing that Note Spacing works for
you? It doesn't for me; it still stacks up everything on beat one.
I checked what I know about in the music spacing options, which seem correct.
If there is some setting affecting music spacing that I missed, please let me
know. I am still suspecting file corruption, rather than some setting gone awry.
Christopher
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