On Feb 2, 2014, at 3:34 PM, Craig Parmerlee <cr...@parmerlee.com> wrote:
> On 2/2/2014 3:34 PM, Peter Taylor wrote: >> I'm with Christopher on this question - I *always* use expressions for >> text repeats, and cccasionally I've even inserted them in the measure >> AFTER a MM rest to make sure they're visible. If I ever want to record >> the playback I use hidden text repeats - they work just as well. > > I must be missing something. The issue is that I can't drag a "road > map" marker when it falls with a multi-measure rest. I'm not sure you're missing anything. What you say just above is true. > It seems to me > that expressions don't show up at all in the parts when they are > attached to the last measure of a mm rest. Also true and especially a pain for a DS. > I guess I could go and > manually add them to the page layout for each part, but that doesn't > seem like a very elegant solution. It's not elegant. It's clumsy - but it does work, and it's the only way I know to accomplish a part that looks right. I put the necessary expressions in the score (above the first measure of what will be a MM rest in each part - a pain in the ass to figure out if that first measure of rest comes in different places for different instruments) - deselecting "Show" and disabling "break MM rests" (careful with this - it can make you miss one of these that gets hidden within a rest in a part!) and then choosing the expression in the part and selecting "Show". Maybe there's a better way, but I haven't figured it out, and as I have said before, with my limited understanding of how Finale works under the hood, I don't see an easy programming fix. I wish I did. I'd campaign for it. As I think about this, I should use two sets of signs - one set that breaks rests and one that doesn't, but I haven't yet set this up. Most things in Finale seem to be done right or are slowly improved as the program matures. This thing just stays messed up. I live with it - not necessarily happily. Chuck > > _______________________________________________ > Finale mailing list > Finale@shsu.edu > http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale > Chuck Israels 8831 SE 12th Ave. Portland, OR 97202-7097 land line: (503) 954-2107 cell phone: (360) 201-3434 <www.chuckisraelsjazz.com> _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
