Regarding #3, you'll get the effect I think you want if you change a measure's width using the Measure Attributes or Edit Multimeasure Rests dialog, rather than dragging the barline -- you'll change the width of the particular measure, and the other measures in the line will shrink or enlarge to compensate.
If you don't like going into and out of dialogs, you can also accomplish this with TGTools Expand/Compress Spacing (for individual measures, not for MM rests). I'm on FinWin11 and I've got the full TGTools, and I forget what kind of TGTools Lite might be bundled in Fin12. In my version, Expand/Compress is mapped to Shift+ and Shift- (using the numeric keypad), so it's easy to select a measure and tap away until things look the way I want them. Aaron. On Sun, Jan 4, 2015 at 5:25 PM, pa...@mooremusic.org.uk < pa...@mooremusic.org.uk> wrote: > Hello again, > > Many thanks Linda and David for your very quick responses. It was > wonderfully > encouraging to find your friendly messages already waiting when I got back > to > the computer after a break. I still remember what a relief it was to join > the > Finale List > soon after first trying Finale (having never even used Windows before) and > find > so > many helpful people out there. > > Linda, I can definitely relate to this! > > > Then I left a gap over a year ago when i installed 2012. I couldn't find > > anything I was used to. A lot of things were better than before, but > > many--like changing the names of tools and putting them in a different > > menu--made me crazy, And there were other problems that even the Finale > > help site and other forums were of no use. I'm afraid to install 2014 for > > fear that the things I'm currently working on will be delayed by more > > changes. This forum has resulted in many, many hints and help, but there > > are still some elements that remain a mystery. > > That must be very, very frustrating. > > > I hope there are a lot of Windows users here to guide > > you through the thicket of changes! > > That's a very good description. :) > > > From: "David H. Bailey" <dhbai...@davidbaileymusicstudio.com> > > > > 1. How can I increase the number of most recently closed items listed > at the > > > bottom of the File menu (default seems to be 4)? > > > > Edit menu, Preferences, then click on Open in the left-hand panel. On > > the right once you do that is an option to set the number of Recent > > Files listed in the File menu. > > Done! I'm slowly getting better at thinking of the possible ways to > interact > with tools/ > menus/icons, etc. > > > > 2. How can I change the default font for e.g. the number above a > > > multi-measure > > > rest? I found a specific item for the default music font, but not the > > > extensive > > > list(s) I expected for all sorts of other elements. > > > To change the default font for anything other than the music font you > > need to edit the default template, or you need to simply change the font > > for each document you create. Or you can set the fonts as you wish, > > then save the Library of all those changes to various items under > > Document Options and then load that Library into each new document you > > create. > > I often generate new files from old and collect the fonts etc. that way, > but I > may manage > to try that out one of these months, thank you. I've saved libraries of > e.g. > expressions > in the past. > > Just off now to sort out the multi-measure rest font, which will be a > noticeable > improvement in the readability of my latest parts. > > > > 3. I haven't found a way to respace a number of bars if e.g. I want to > > > enlarge a > > > multi-measure rest and then space the remaining bars in the line > equally. > > > I'm > > > puzzled that it doesn't seem to be a possibility related to the menu > that > > > appears when I right click on one of the "measure spacing handles". > I'm sure > > > I > > > must be mis sing something. > > > > I think you may need to drag the barlines for each measure on those > > lines -- I don't know of a way to make all the measures on a system be > > equally spaced. I hope someone else may have found a way to do what you > > want. > > I'll be very disappointed if it's no longer possible. > > > Finale will always change the bar lengths according to what is in > > each bar -- you wouldn't want a bar with only a single whole note to > > take up as much space as a bar with 16 16th notes would you? > > No, you're right. What I really meant was that I wanted them spaced equally > appropriately. If I just enlarge the rest bar the one next to it is all > squished > up. > > > Of course, if that's is the result you want, you can achieve that using > a > > hidden > > layer full of whatever note value you want to determine the bar's width, > > making it visible when you do your spacing and then hiding it for > > printing after you've locked the layout. > > That's a useful reminder, thanks. I have done simlar things with hidden > notes > in the past. > Best wishes > > Patsy > > -- > Patsy Moore <pa...@mooremusic.org.uk> > www.da-capo.org.uk > > _______________________________________________ > 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
