Hi Christopher, I must not have explained myself clearly, or maybe I wasn't thinking clearly (more likely). Sometimes I answer too quickly - wanting to be helpful and then discovering that I have been just the opposite!
Since I am in the habit of putting quarter rests behind slashes - a holdover from the early days when you needed to do all kinds of machinations to get slash or rhythmic notation, I guess I haven't had occasion to try simply applying the staff style to see if Finale would recognize that as an "entry' and not make the affected measures part of a MM rest. I use the rests hidden behind the slash staff style to control the spacing - putting in quarter rests most of the time and smaller values when I need to make room for chords with long suffixes - or if there are chords on every beat that would otherwise crash. As a matter of fact, when I run into spacing problems that I don't know how to control any other way (when I need more space than Finale will give me but don't want to spread measures over more lines), I put hidden rests in another layer - rests that "push" the music further apart. Are there better ways to do this I am missing? It used to be that dragging elements and bar lines to space them by hand was unreliable because Finale would re-space things back to its defaults after you closed and re-opened the part. Don't know if that remains the case, but the hidden rests seem to be reliable. And it's OK Christopher, I try not to lose self respect even when I find I've been wrong! You can correct me any time. Fond regards, Chuck On Mar 21, 2014, at 5:35 PM, Christopher Smith <christopher.sm...@videotron.ca> wrote: > Hi Stephen, > > With total respect for Chuck and his knowledge, Finale does NOT need a > measure to have an item in it to prevent it from creating a multimeasure > rest. The staff style alone would be sufficient. > > My previous answer is almost certainly the solution, and it is a one-step > solution. You won't have to do it several times to the same document. This > should save you quite a bit of work. > > Christopher > > > On Thu Mar 20, at ThursdayMar 20 3:24 PM, Stephen Cronin wrote: > >> Thanks, Chuck and Christopher, for the advice. >> >> Unfortunately it's an orchestral ballet score with lots of these measures >> spread (semi-randomly) across many parts. (Playback is not needed apart from >> quick proof reading.) It will mean each instance must be dealt with >> individually. >> >> Learnt something for the future =( >> >> 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 >> https://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale >> >> To unsubscribe from finale send a message to: >> finale-unsubscr...@shsu.edu >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Finale mailing list > Finale@shsu.edu > https://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale > > To unsubscribe from finale send a message to: > finale-unsubscr...@shsu.edu > 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 https://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale To unsubscribe from finale send a message to: finale-unsubscr...@shsu.edu
