Lol, Christopher, yes, the "Window Of Shame".
-- Simon Troup | BA Hons (Mus) http://www.digitalmusicart.com Partners: Simon Troup & Jennie Troup VAT Registration: 982 4230 17 *"If you can twang it, we can engrave it. Seriously, we can. No... really!"* *This email is a private communication between the sender and the intended recipient. If you received this email in error be advised that all content, information and files contained in the message remain copyright of the author, artist or original copyright holder and may not be used without permission.* On 15 May 2014 22:26, Christopher Smith <christopher.sm...@videotron.ca>wrote: > Once you get a nice library set up (with that tiny little un-resizeable > edit window where the nudge buttons don't work!) it is pretty painless. I > have many, many issues with the chord tool, though. > > Christopher > > > On Thu May 15, at ThursdayMay 15 5:23 PM, John Roberts wrote: > > > Thank you both for the input. I've usually used lyrics for chord > > symbols, using one of the Metronome fonts which mixes music symbols with > > texts and has a nice set of superscript numbers, but I was getting a > > random bug in Fin2012 where lyrics would suddenly get out of sync with > > their corresponding music. 2014 crashes too much so I went back to 2012, > > and decided to try the chord tool more seriously. But I don't much like > > the results, or the effort/results ratio. > > John > > > > > > On 5/15/14, 12:22 PM, Simon Troup wrote: > >> I think all that's required is an "Horizontal offset for chords with > >> alterations" setting. > >> > >> > >> -- > >> > >> Simon Troup | BA Hons (Mus) > >> http://www.digitalmusicart.com > >> > >> Partners: Simon Troup & Jennie Troup > >> VAT Registration: 982 4230 17 > >> > >> *"If you can twang it, we can engrave it. Seriously, we can. No... > really!"* > >> > >> *This email is a private communication between the sender and the > intended > >> recipient. If you received this email in error be advised that all > content, > >> information and files contained in the message remain copyright of the > >> author, artist or original copyright holder and may not be used without > >> permission.* > >> > >> > >> On 15 May 2014 17:01, Christopher Smith <christopher.sm...@videotron.ca > >wrote: > >> > >>> I'm bugged by it. In fact the thing that bugs me most is that if you > open > >>> up a bit of space to allow for the sharp, then a root WITHOUT an > alteration > >>> seems to have too BIG of a gap. > >>> > >>> I created a whole set of custom suffixes, but of course Finale being > what > >>> it is, they took me a very long time and I'm still not happy with them, > >>> partly because of the gap problem. > >>> > >>> Christopher > >>> > >>> > >>> On Thu May 15, at ThursdayMay 15 11:02 AM, Simon Troup wrote: > >>> > >>>> Hi John > >>>> > >>>> I've often suggested offsets for such scenarios but never, until > you've > >>>> mentioned this, found anyone else who was bothered by Finale's lack of > >>>> precision in this respect. My suffix libraries include a duplicate > set of > >>>> suffixes which start about 5 EVPU further to the right for those I use > >>> most > >>>> often. You'll probably find my posts about it in the Finale forums by > >>>> searching for "Chord Suffix Kerning" or similar. Then again, maybe > this > >>> has > >>>> been updated, or there's a better way to do it, so I'm very > interested to > >>>> see what anyone else has to say about it. > >>>> > >>>> -- > >>>> > >>>> Simon Troup | BA Hons (Mus) > >>>> http://www.digitalmusicart.com > >>>> > >>>> Partners: Simon Troup & Jennie Troup > >>>> VAT Registration: 982 4230 17 > >>>> > >>>> *"If you can twang it, we can engrave it. Seriously, we can. No... > >>> really!"* > >>>> > >>>> *This email is a private communication between the sender and the > >>> intended > >>>> recipient. If you received this email in error be advised that all > >>> content, > >>>> information and files contained in the message remain copyright of the > >>>> author, artist or original copyright holder and may not be used > without > >>>> permission.* > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> On 15 May 2014 15:56, John Roberts <an...@nycap.rr.com> wrote: > >>>> > >>>>> I'm finding that when I add a chord suffix to an altered chord, eg > F#7, > >>>>> the suffix is too close to the # sign. It's fine with a plain chord > >>>>> letter name. Is there a way to add some space after the accidental? I > >>>>> suppose I could create a whole duplicate set of symbols with a little > >>>>> extra space before each one but this seems overkill. > >>> > > > _______________________________________________ > 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
