Can you make available a small file which demonstrates the problem? This functionality seems to be working for me.
Aaron. On Thu, May 10, 2018 at 1:04 PM, Michael Edwards <mjedwa...@foxall.com.au> wrote: > Hallo. > > I have a problem in Finale with changing key signatures. There are > two basic options in Finale for this - to cancel the old key signature > (partially or entirely) with naturals before inserting the new one, or just > inserting the new one. > I always use the former option for this - the older, traditional > method - but Finale usually doesn't do this correctly, and I'm wondering if > this is a known problem and if there is anything I can do about it. > As I'm sure most here would know, you cancel the entire old key > signature if you go from sharps to flats or vice-versa; but if you go from > sharps to a smaller sharp signature or flats to a smaller flat signature, > you cancel only the flats or sharps in the old signature that won't be in > the new one. And if you are going from a smaller to a larger signature of > the same type, then, and only then, do you have no naturals at all. > However, most of the time, I find that Finale puts in all the > naturals for the entire old signature regardless - sometimes even in the > last case I mentioned where none are needed. > To make things more complicated, it sometimes seems to do things > correctly, which is why I just said "most of the time". That seems to > suggest that there are unknown, invisible circumstances in each situation > that govern whether this problem occurs or not. In a case where it does it > incorrectly, though, no amount of tweaking or re-doing it seems to make any > difference. > This seems such an obvious problem that I would find it incredible > that it has not, over all the years Finale has being going, been noticed > and corrected. > (To forestall anyone asking, yes, I have tried different settings in > the menu item that controls key signature changes. It does change some > behaviour, but not in a way that is correct according to the normal rules > for changing key signatures, as I described above.) > > Is this a known problem, and is there a remedy, please? Or am I > possibly doing something wrong that I just don't know about? > Thank you. > > Michael Edwards. > > > _______________________________________________ > 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
