On 14 Jan 2011 at 13:40, Robert Patterson wrote: > On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 1:30 PM, Ryan <ry.squa...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > If you use a double whole rest in successive measures, will Finale > > create the appropriate multi-measure rest automatically? > > No, getting Finale to do it requires lots of extra manual steps. That's > why it is understandable that many users may not see the value in it, > especially since the practice is in flux.
Er, why wouldn't you change the default empty measure rest, instead of putting real rests in? Certainly that's not a perfect solution in cases where you have mixed meters, but you can easily choose as your default empty measure rest the one that corresponds to the one needed in most of the empty measures, and then you'll get proper multimeasure rests in your parts. As I said in another post, it would be nice if you could set the default empty measure rest in a staff style, so you could use different ones in different sections of the piece and still get proper multimeasure rests (and not have to muck about with manually positioning the real rests that you have to enter). -- 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
