David, At your quite helpful suggestion, I went back and looked at the text repeats. Go Measure # works for me, so long as it is in the bar preceding the first ending.
R On Wed, Jan 13, 2016 at 9:58 AM, David H. Bailey <dhbaile...@comcast.net> wrote: > > In the current versions of Finale, that "Go To Measure#" is only > effective once the first ending is played -- it does not prevent the > first ending from being played as Robert asked for help with in the > original message. > > As I recall that has always worked that way -- it's for defining which > measure the repeat should go back to or jump forward to, but only after > the first ending has been played. > > David H. Bailey > > On 1/13/2016 8:13 AM, Peter Taylor wrote: > > I'm not up with recent versions, but in Fin 2005 and 2007 there is > indeed an > > option in the endings dialog of "Go to measure #". Do you not have it? > But > > anyway, it's very easy to create it if MakeMusic don't include it in the > > modern default files. > > > > Peter > > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "David H. Bailey" <dhbaile...@comcast.net> > > To: <finale@shsu.edu> > > Sent: Wednesday, January 13, 2016 12:13 AM > > Subject: Re: [Finale] Always skip first ending > > > > > >> > >> Thank you, Lawrence and Gerald. I had fun trying to figure out how to > >> solve the problem. > >> > >> But even though my workaround is easy enough to accomplish, it certainly > >> begs the question of why MakeMusic haven't built into the endings > >> dialogs the option "Ignore this ending - jump to measure #[target > >> measure]." > >> > >> I hope the MakeMusic people who monitor this list take this under > >> advisement. > >> > >> The problem of using the "ignore repeats" in the Playback is that > >> sometimes, as in this situation of Robert's, perhaps there is one first > >> ending that should be ignored on playback but others that need to be > >> taken. > >> > >> My solution solves that problem but it's a bother and should be an > >> option in the repeat dialog. > >> > >> Thanks, > >> David H. Bailey > >> > >> > >> > >>> On 1/12/2016 6:49 PM, Lawrence Yates wrote: > >>> Excellent - thank you! > >>> > >>> Cheers, > >>> > >>> Lawrence > >>> > >>> On 12 January 2016 at 23:35, GERALD BERG <gj.b...@rogers.com> wrote: > >>> > >>>> Brilliant David! GJB > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> From: David H. Bailey <dhbaile...@comcast.net> > >>>> To: finale@shsu.edu > >>>> Sent: Tuesday, January 12, 2016 6:05 PM > >>>> Subject: Re: [Finale] Always skip first ending > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> On 1/12/2016 1:05 PM, Robert Patterson wrote: > >>>>> Is there away to set an ending always to be skipped? I have an > optional > >>>> 1st > >>>>> ending that I never want to hear in playback, regardless of "Ignore > >>>>> Repeats" settings. The option to skip the ending is not jumping out > at > >>>> me. > >>>> > >>>> I don't see any easy way, but the workaround I've found isn't too > >>>> onerous: > >>>> 1) in the repeat tool duplicate the D.S. al Fine instruction and edit > >>>> the font to be hidden. > >>>> 2) select this new hidden D.S. al Fine in the repeat tool and set the > >>>> target measure number to be the start of the 2nd ending. > >>>> > >>>> This worked in my short 3 measure example so I see no reason why it > >>>> shouldn't work for you in a more major piece. > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> -- > >>>> David H. Bailey > >>>> dhbai...@davidbaileymusicstudio.com > >>>> http://www.davidbaileymusicstudio.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 > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >> > >> > >> -- > >> David H. 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