I know this isn't what you are asking for (i.e. not a solution internal to Finale), but it is really quick and easy to generate all your parts as PDF, using the PDF Creator free software. That is a good thing to do without respect to the desire for colors.
But once your parts are in PDFs, you can use Acrobat Reader's highlighting tool to get exactly the right effect, IMHO. Don't color the symbols for the reasons others have mentioned. leave them black, But highlight the background with bright yellow. In the PDF, the segno and coda symbols are treated as text, and therefore can be highlighted by the Acrobat highlighting took. It would take less than 2 minutes to do this for a full big band arrangement, for example. It would be really nice if a future version of Finale gave us a lot more control over text attributes such as background color, but until then, this is a good, quick, effective solution. On 5/12/2013 1:31 PM, Haroldo Mauro wrote: > I've been doing it by hand, using a marker. But it happens that I just bought > a laser color printer, and I want it to do it for me :-) I figured the > easiest solution would be to place the coda and segno signs as measure text > blocks and have all other text blocks assigned to the page, because these > (measure/page text blocks) can be colored individually. That would of course > nullify the jumps in playback. > > Now, what in the world is a digital hiliter facility? > Thanks, Harold > > _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
