I think either Steve is misreading Michael's original post, or I am. I read the post as saying that if Michael is going from Eb major to F major, for example, he's seeing 3 naturals followed by a single flat. I don't believe I've ever seen this behavior, and I can't reproduce it currently. That's why I asked if he had a small file that demonstrates the issue.
Aaron. On Thu, May 10, 2018 at 3:35 PM, Fiskum, Steve <fisk...@jspaluch.com> wrote: > You will be glad to know that this issue has FINALLY been fixed but only > in FIN25. I've lobbied for this for years and it was welcome news to find > out they finally gave us the option to control this about a year ago > (attached screenshot). The workaround was always painful! > > Enjoy! > Steve > > ________________________________________ > From: Finale <finale-boun...@shsu.edu> on behalf of Michael Edwards < > mjedwa...@foxall.com.au> > Sent: Thursday, May 10, 2018 12:04 PM > To: finale@shsu.edu > Subject: [Finale] Finale doesn't change key signatures correctly. > > 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 > _______________________________________________ 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
