Hi Chuck, Yes, I often put in rests under slash staff styles as you do, to open up some more space for chord symbols (they never space properly when I include them in Music Spacing). You are absolutely right that this method of adding horizontal space to a measure is the most predictable way to do it, and it survives a respace.
I'm glad you are so at ease with the push and pull of discussions here. It makes things easier to hash out. Best Christopher On Fri Mar 21, at FridayMar 21 9:18 PM, Chuck Israels wrote: > 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 > _______________________________________________ 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
