So this is a very annoying bug with no workaround that I can think of… I am trying to show a 12-tone series on a part for an improvising soloist. I also want to show a cued bass line in the same measure.
The part is in 4/4 so the 12-tone row is in eighth-note triplets in layer 3. I want those notes to be stemless. But I want to show the stems on the cued bass line, in layer 4. So I create the stemless notes the old-fashioned way, using the Custom Stem Tool and a blank shape, breaking all the triplet beams, and hiding the triplet numbers and brackets. So far, so good. The problem comes when it is time to copy this notation to another measure. When a custom stem has been applied to the first triplet in the measure, copying it causes the triplet to be deleted and the first three eighth notes of the 12-tone row come in as regular (non-triplet) eighth notes. (The other triplets come in correctly — only the first triplet in the measure is affected.) Needless to say, this is a bit of a nightmare. The only workaround I can think of is leaving the regular stem in place for the first triplet, copying this notation everywhere I need it (which is many, many places), and then, once all of the copy operations are complete, going back and applying the custom stem measure-by-measure as needed. Can anyone (A) confirm this bug and (B) think of a better workaround? Cheers, - DJA ----- WEB: http://www.secretsocietymusic.org _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] https://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale To unsubscribe from finale send a message to: [email protected]
