Re: [Finale] Horizontal alignment of Expressions

[Claudio Pompili]

I assume you mean Align/Move Dynamics plug-in. I checked on the Text 
Expressions and was able to move the expressions for the whole or partial 
measure as a block. With a bit of experimenting, it works but not as useful as 
being able to align directly in the score and across any selected expressions, 
including non-contiguous ones and across measures. Hoping there was a command 
as per the the Smart Shapes Tool that allows for “Align Horizontally”

thanks


> From: "j...@thomastudios.com" 
> Subject: Re: [Finale] Horizontal alignment of Expressions
> Date: 17 October 2017 at 03:08:06 ACDT
> To: "" 
> 
> 
> TGTools does what you’re looking for.
> 
> 
> ***
> J D Thomas
> ThomaStudios
> 
> 
> 
>> On Oct 16, 2017, at 12:45 AM, Claudio Pompili 
>>  wrote:
>> 
>> Mac Finale 25
>> 
>> I want to align horizontally some Expressions that I’ve created in Technique 
>> Text category eg guitar right-hand fingerings. I can use the baseline method 
>> but this is cumbersome since I need to do a lot of little adjustments. I’ve 
>> been looking for a right-click “horizontal align” command to align a 
>> selected number of expressions, on an ad hoc basis. I recall something like 
>> that years ago but can’t find it. I’ve checked all my Plug-ins (including TW 
>> and Patterson Collection) to no avail.
>> 
>> Any suggestions appreciated
>> 
>> cheers, Claudio
>> *
>> Dr Claudio Pompili (PhD)
>> Adelaide, Australia
>> 
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Re: [Finale] Horizontal alignment of Expressions

[j...@thomastudios.com]

TGTools does what you’re looking for.


***
J D Thomas
ThomaStudios



> On Oct 16, 2017, at 12:45 AM, Claudio Pompili 
>  wrote:
> 
> Mac Finale 25
> 
> I want to align horizontally some Expressions that I’ve created in Technique 
> Text category eg guitar right-hand fingerings. I can use the baseline method 
> but this is cumbersome since I need to do a lot of little adjustments. I’ve 
> been looking for a right-click “horizontal align” command to align a selected 
> number of expressions, on an ad hoc basis. I recall something like that years 
> ago but can’t find it. I’ve checked all my Plug-ins (including TW and 
> Patterson Collection) to no avail.
> 
> Any suggestions appreciated
> 
> cheers, Claudio
> *
> Dr Claudio Pompili (PhD)
> Adelaide, Australia
> 
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Re: [Finale] Create multi-staff instrument

[Michael Edwards]

  Hallo, Jef; thanks for the information you gave.
  You may quite well be right that I lack an understanding of the 
fundamental basis on which Finale works.  Do you know if there are any 
of the help web pages that explain this basis?
  So far I have found various help pages that explain how to solve 
particular problems, with varying degrees of clarity (to me, at least), 
but they don't really give much information about that underlying 
structure of the software.
  Such a deeper understanding might help me solve problems more 
easily, so any pointers to where I can find this would be helpful.
  Thank you.

Michael Edwards.

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Re: [Finale] Create multi-staff instrument

[SN jef chippewa]

hi michael, the issue you mention is not a "problem", it is design. 
think of notation software as a digital grid, not blank 2D paper. 
the extra staff/staves you add are present in the entire document 
(i.e. all measures/systems) but can also be hidden selectively in an 
instant.  there are various approaches to hiding, depending on the 
needs of your music (through the staff tool, selecting handles on the 
page, or staff styles in various ways).

staff groups are what you need to check out for extending the bracket 
over all staves of your piano instrument.  this needs to be redefined 
manually because the extra staves you add are not considered part of 
the piano internally.  i have been doing this for years for other 
reasons (extra staff above the grand staff for objects or percussion 
instruments that the pianist plays) with no problems, but it requires 
shifting one's perspective on what the notation sofware is/does and 
how it is structured, in comparison to notating on paper, where i can 
add anything for as short or long a passage as i wish.


>   My issue is with piano music, and there are a few pieces I have
>which will briefly require 3 or 4 staves, although I use only 2 for
>maybe 95 percent of systems in piano music.  (And nothing I write
>requires more than two staves for the entire piece.)
>   I think I found a utility for adding a staff, but there were two
>problems with it: Finale added the extra staff for all systems in the
>piece, not just the one or two where I wanted it; and the curly bracket
>at the start didn't lengthen to cover all staves, but just remained
>covering two staves it considered to be the original ones, and not the
>extra one or two.
>   Are there easy solutions to this, please?
>   Also, does creating an extra staff just for a couple of systems
>have implications if, as I edit the piece, repagination occurs and the
>distribution of bars on particular staves changes?  Do I have to plan
>for that, or will Finale look after it if the bars do later get
>rearranged automatically (or I rearrange them manually)?

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Re: [Finale] Horizontal alignment of Expressions

[Claudio Pompili]

Mac Finale 25

I want to align horizontally some Expressions that I’ve created in Technique 
Text category eg guitar right-hand fingerings. I can use the baseline method 
but this is cumbersome since I need to do a lot of little adjustments. I’ve 
been looking for a right-click “horizontal align” command to align a selected 
number of expressions, on an ad hoc basis. I recall something like that years 
ago but can’t find it. I’ve checked all my Plug-ins (including TW and Patterson 
Collection) to no avail.

Any suggestions appreciated

cheers, Claudio
*
Dr Claudio Pompili (PhD)
Adelaide, Australia

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