Thank you. This was my first thought for a workaround and it’s what I plan on doing. But I wondered if Finale had some way of doing this that I had missed. Thanks for all the help.
JR > On Aug 15, 2019, at 10:36 AM, Robert Patterson <rob...@robertgpatterson.com> > wrote: > > I think your best bet is a line (from the Smart Shapes palette). If you > need a line of different width to match the width of the repeat ending > brackets, you can create a Custom Line. The disadvantage of a smart shape > is, of course, that smart shapes don't have staff lists. But that doesn't > appear to be a problem in this case. > > On Thu, Aug 15, 2019 at 9:23 AM John Roberts <an...@nycap.rr.com> wrote: > >> It’s a guitar tab piece, a 32-bar waltz section and with variation on the >> repeat it works out to 16-bar 1st and 2nd endings, with about 5 bars per >> system. I also seem to remember that your solution used to work, but it’s a >> long time since I needed to do this. >> >> It is for a client, but it’s my call on how it’s laid out. I need to keep >> the music theory minimal for folk guitar students :-) so I think a DS >> system wouldn’t work for me, and in any case similar repeats will come up >> in later sections of the piece. Triple segnos are too confusing for me! >> >> Thanks for the input. >> >> JR >> >> >>> On Aug 15, 2019, at 9:35 AM, David H. Bailey <dhbaile...@comcast.net> >> wrote: >>> >>> On 8/15/2019 8:29 AM, John Roberts wrote: >>>> That’s the first thing I tried, David - I got a very long line on the >> first system that stretched way off the page. >>>> JR >>> >>> Is this something you have to do for a client or is it your own >> project? If it's your own project, might it be better to use some sort of >> D.S. structure instead of a long first ending? >>> >>> I just tried my solution and it doesn't work -- sorry. >>> >>> I guess you just have to place it in page view, where the start of the >> ending bracket will show on the first system included in the ending, and >> the end of the ending bracket will show on its system and you'll simply >> have to place graphic lines on the in-between systems. >>> >>> I could swear my solution used to work alright when placing it in scroll >> view, but I may be confusing Finale with Sibelius, where it definitely is >> much easier to accomplish what you want. >>> >>> >>> -- >>> ***** >>> David H. Bailey >>> dhbaile...@comcast.net >>> 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 _______________________________________________ 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
