Hi Ryan, Your maximum width is set artificially low (which you did not mention). You should make it as big as Finale will allow.
> This setting doesn't seem to have any bearing on Finale's default measure > width for a single measure of rest. It does if your minimum width is smaller than your maximum width. > That value has to be somewhere, right? > You can specify how wide you want a multi-measure rest, so I think you > should be able to specify how wide you want single measure rest. Minimum measure width is in fact the variable that governs what you want. Cheers, - DJA ----- WEB: http://www.secretsocietymusic.org On 29 Dec 2011, at 5:38 PM, Ryan wrote: > That didn't work, Darcy. It created the opposite of what I want. Did you > perhaps mean to tell me to change the *maximum* width? That's already set > at 75 spaces. > > This setting doesn't seem to have any bearing on Finale's default measure > width for a single measure of rest. That value has to be somewhere, right? > You can specify how wide you want a multi-measure rest, so I think you > should be able to specify how wide you want single measure rest. > > On Thu, Dec 29, 2011 at 5:00 PM, Darcy James Argue > <djar...@earthlink.net>wrote: > >> Hi Ryan, >> >> You want to make the minimum width larger, not smaller. >> >> Try making the minimum width 150 points or similar. >> >> Cheers, >> >> - DJA >> ----- >> WEB: http://www.secretsocietymusic.org >> >> >> >> On 29 Dec 2011, at 4:56 PM, Ryan Beard wrote: >> >>> I've tried that. Even with a minimum width of 1 space the empty measures >> are still wider than adjacent measures with music in them. >>> >>> On Dec 29, 2011, at 12:35 PM, Jari Williamsson < >> jari.williams...@mailbox.swipnet.se> wrote: >>> >>>> On 2011-12-29 00:32, Ryan wrote: >>>>> How do I globally change the default width for measures with default >> whole >>>>> rests in them? All the steps I've taken so far have not changed >> anything. >>>> >>>> Change the minimum width and respace. >>>> >>>> >>>> Best regards, >>>> >>>> Jari Williamsson >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Finale mailing list >>>> Finale@shsu.edu >>>> http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Finale mailing list >>> Finale@shsu.edu >>> http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Finale mailing list >> Finale@shsu.edu >> http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale >> > _______________________________________________ > Finale mailing list > Finale@shsu.edu > http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
