What version of Finale are you using? My answers apply to Finale 25,
but as I recall they've been this way for many versions.
You edit the layers in Document Options / Layers (not "move layers" as
you ask)
You edit Slash Notation Staff Style but selecting the Staff Tool and
then from the Staff Menu select Define Staff Styles
You select Show Active Layer Only in the Document menu (why it's not in
the View menu or in the Edit menu, since it affects what you're viewing
and also affects what is being edited, is a question nobody has been
able to answer clearly). You can also use the shift-alt-S (that's on
windows, I don't know what the combination would be on a Mac) to set the
Show Active Layer Only or turn it off when you want to see everything.
Then you select Layer 3 using the small 1 2 3 4 boxes at the bottom left
of the screen.
David H. Bailey
On 8/20/2018 5:46 AM, Martin Nickless wrote:
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On 20 Aug 2018, at 02:58, Christopher Smith <christopher.sm...@videotron.ca>
wrote:
That seems right.
I reserve layer 3 for cues above the staff, and I set Layer Options so that
Layer 3 is always stems up, ties up, and rests are displaced by 6 steps. I make
sure the option is selected that this happens even when the other layers are
empty.
DO I FIND LAYER OPTIONS VIA DOCUMENT OPTIONS MOVE LAYERS ?
I reserve layer 4 for cues below the staff, Layer Options stems down for Layer
4, ties down, and rests displaced by negative 6 steps.
Layer 2 I use in choral parts and keyboard parts and stems down on drum parts
(not to mention paired instruments on staves) so I don’t want that for cues.
You have to edit the Slash Notation staff style so that under Alternate
Notation you edit it to show items in other layers. Otherwise, out of the box,
Finale will NOT show anything else. I also add articulations and expressions in
other layers to be displayed, because those things need to show, even in the
drum part.
HOW DO I NAVIGATE TO EDIT SLASH NOTATION
I also like to Show Active Layer while in Layer 3, select the entire drum
staff, and Change Note Size to 75%. I do this only once the whole drum part is
done. Some people like the drum cues to be full-sized, but I find it gets
crowded at 100%. Repeat for Layer 4.
HOW DO I GET TO SHOW ACTIVE LAYER IN LAYER 3
NOT SURE ABOUT HOW TO GET TO THE DIFFERENT SCREENS FROM YOUR BRILLIANT ANSWER
THANKS IF YOY COYLD CLARIFY
BEST REGARDS
MARTIN
Hope this helps.
Christopher
On Aug 19, 2018, at 8:50 PM, Martin Nickless <mnnickl...@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi there can any one writing big band charts please help me with my drum parts
I have searched all over finale manuals but with no luck
I want to write small cue size notes above the top staff and small cue size
notes just below the staff
With slash notation in the middle
If someone could bullet point the process I would be extremely grateful kind
regards Martin
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