Stephen, 1. what shows when you've checked margins is not the same thing.
2. view menu; grid/guide; check, show guides 3. view menu; show; rulers 4. with cursor in rule, double click and the blue line with a heart shaped arrow head, will appear on the page under all tools, including page layout. My first attempt was with the margins showing. It took Jef's reply to help me make the connection. Michael Mathew mmathew_musicp...@yahoo.com http://www.musicengravers.com/cgi-bin/engravers.pl http://oregonmts.com/mathew/ >________________________________ > From: Stephen Cronin <step...@cronin.name> >To: finale@shsu.edu >Sent: Friday, February 8, 2013 2:19 PM >Subject: [Finale] Page layout behaviour > >Hello List, > >Just a report back after my discussion with MM support about the centre >alignment guides that disappear when the Page Layout Tool is selected... > >First response to my message and screen shots was: > >> "Thanks for contacting us and I can certainly help. I would not expect the >> guides to change at all when you click the Page Layout Tool. Do they by >> chance reappear when you press Command + R to show rulers. Also, just so I >> know what I am looking at as I cannot see your entire screen in the attached >> files, did you change the guide color from it's default light blue? >> >> What surprises me about these shots is that the page and system margins are >> showing when you are in the Selection Tool which I would expect even less. >> >> With that aside just for now, here's how I would align the staves: >> 1. Page Layout Tool >> 2. From the menubar at the top of your screen select Page Layout > Systems > >> Edit Margins >> >> A default document with an 8.5 x 11 page size has left and right margins of >> .5 inches (on each side) - Therefore the inside width of the document is 7.5 >> inches - divide this by 2 and this is the size that the right side of each >> system margin should be set to 3.5 inches." > >I responded with more screen shots to clarify and the response was: > >> When you have View > Show > Margins checked all margins show with the >> Selection Tool active. (your screenshot 3) >> When Page Layout Tool is active the middle vertical and middle horizontal >> margins disappear - this is what I would expect (as inconvenient as it is in >> this case, it is normal behavior). >> >> When Guides (light blue lines) are assigned with the Selection Tool active, >> they are still visible when switching to the Page Layout Tool (and vice >> versa) - This is where we're getting different behavior. > >The advice continued "trash the preferences" (Gee, I didn't see that >coming!?!) which I dutifully did to no change and the annoyance that I had to >set them up again... > >Fact is, these lines are available in EVERY tool except Page Layout. (With my >limited knowledge of programming, that suggests to me there is a box in the OO >programming environment that needs to be ticked!) > >Why are these lines so important to me? > >I frequently create worksheets for my students where i have musical examples >on one side of the page and space for text or answers on the other. When these >guides were available in Page Layout, all one had to do was select the system >handles (left or right) and drag them to the centre guide. Done and dusted. > >As a workaround I have modified the default file so that a pale blue version >of the lines is present in every new document. Trouble is, now you can't turn >it off by de-selecting Show Margins. You have to turn the rulers on and delete >the blue guides. > >What was once a an easy one-step process is now a pain in the arse! > >Stephen > > >________________________________________________________________________________ > > >ars est longa, >vita brevis > >Stephen Cronin's home page: http://www.stephen.cronin.name >{real+imagined} http://www.real-imagined.com.au > > > >_______________________________________________ >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
