I know of no easy way to do this. I have very few times I need to do it, but when I do I actually use beat-attached slurs or dotted slurs. This allows me to guarantee they are horizontal and to control their directions. However, MakeMusic unfortunately has almost abandoned beat-attached slurs in the U.I. since Finale 2014. Finale still supports them though, and they work quite well with proper endpoint placement.
To get that proper endpoint placement I use my Smart Shape Editor plugin. (One of the design goals of the plugin is to make this easier, so there are some options there that allow for changing all the endpoints at once.) The plugin allows precise assignment of both beat position and horizontal offsets. Once I have it set up, I use my Mass Copy plugin to copy it wherever possible. That at least reduces the amount of tedium. Finale needs a proper dashed tie option, no question. But where I use this (in addition to dashed ties) is ties to nowhere. That is, for example, ties over barlines to who continued ringing of piano notes and the like. Good luck. On Thu, Aug 1, 2019 at 10:13 PM Percuszionstudio < harrojadga...@westnet.com.au> wrote: > Oops. I was thinking of the ties, not smart shapes. Sorry. > > R > > > On 2 Aug 2019, at 12:35, Percuszionstudio <harrojadga...@westnet.com.au> > wrote: > > > > If you select the chord and be careful not to select a specific note > Finale should just connect all notes. If only certain notes are to be > connected that involves more work. HTH. > > > > Cheers > > > > Ryszard > > > >> On 2 Aug 2019, at 12:21, Aaron Rabushka <arabus...@austin.rr.com> > wrote: > >> > >> Does any of you know a way to get dashed lines, curved in the proper > >> directions, to connect each note of a chord? The program simply writes > each > >> one over the previous one, and I've had to drag one of the copies out > and > >> modify its direction by pulling several of its defining points from the > old > >> shape to the new. Does anybody know of a way to do this that is not so > >> tedious? > >> > >> > >> > >> Aaron J. Rabushka > >> > >> Austin, TX > >> > >> Finale 2014.0.3163 in Windows 10 > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> 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 > _______________________________________________ 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
