Yes, there are very good reasons not to include chords in spacing! If you put a chord symbol over, say, an eighth note, it opens up a giant amount of space in front of the next note. It doesn't seem to know that there isn't a chord on the next note.
Also, putting a check on Chords in Music Spacing doesn't seem to have any effect unless we have actual entries in the measure. It only seems to avoid collisions between ENTRIES with chords on them. If we have chord symbols over notes in the measure, there isn't really a good way to space them, except maybe putting hidden rests in another layer, which would mean having to adjust stem directions, etc. Christopher On Thu Oct 4, at ThursdayOct 4 10:00 AM, Jari Williamsson wrote: > Is there any specific reason why you don't include chords in the music > spacing options? > > I think your solution of putting rests for spacing purposes is an > excellent solution. That gives you the ability to control the width and > chord placement quite well. If you need more space in some part of the > measure, insert rests at half the duration and put twice as many rest > for that part of the measure. > > > Best regards, > > Jari Williamsson > > > On 2012-10-04 15:14, Don Hart wrote: >> Now that chords can be attached without notation I'm wondering how others >> go about spacing measures that only have the staff style "slash notation" >> in them. If nothing else occurs in the measure stack, and with the minimum >> meas. width set to zero, these measures are very squashed-looking. Bars >> with several changes can still a problem since I usually have chords >> unchecked in the music spacing prefs. >> >> I usually wind up doing what I had to do before chords could be attached >> independently and put rests in each measure to provide basic, consistent >> spacing (i.e., 4 quarter rests in each measure in 4/4). I copy this >> throughout while setting up and change as needed while scoring. Overall, >> pretty painless, but I was curious if someone knew a better way to handle >> this, like maybe a different minimum measure width or something else. >> >> Thanks, >> >> Don Hart >> _______________________________________________ >> 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
