Mike, Use the expressions category "Technique Text". You can create the expressions in that category or move them to that category. If you move them in Technique Text, you then choose "Reset to Category" and "Fonts and Position".
That category has the closest placement to where you would want character names. I compose a lot for musical theater and use that all the time for my character names. You can edit the placement if you'd like then make copies of that expression for the other character names and they will all match. Bonnie Bonnie Ruth Janofsky composer / songwriter 818-784-4466 www.BonnieRuthJanofsky.com Message: 2 Date: Thu, 8 Sep 2011 18:47:21 -0400 From: Michael L Meyer <mlmli...@gmail.com> Subject: [Finale] Character names To: <finale@shsu.edu> Message-ID: <85db3bed-2e68-46de-9d53-48b74ddf6...@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Hi all -- FinMac2011 -- working on a musical theatre score. In the past, I've assigned names of characters (at the beginning of a sung passage) as expressions. (e.g. JULIE JORDAN: or something like that) In Fin2011, I even made a category called "character names" so that each new character name I made would already use the same font, click placement, etc. However, the category definition forces me to designate a Staff List for assignment -- and there isn't an option that just says "place this expression on the staff I place it on, and only that one." There's "top staff," "bottom staff," or any of the staves in the score -- but the staff I assign these expressions to changes with each use. Am I missing something? Or should I not be using expressions for this, and instead use measure-assigned text boxes? Thanks in advance for any help/ideas. -- Mike _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
