Re: [Finale] Bill Duncan and rolled chords

[Eric Dannewitz]

Mozart font?

D. Keneth Fowler wrote:
Thanks Eric, Leigh, Christopher and Scot for your response to my 
questions. I do not rank as a power Finale user, but there are always 
useful things to learn in any new source. It looks like the note heads 
have beat out the stems in the rolled chord competition.


The way I have entered the roll sign is very tedious. In the Mozart 
font there is a character, number 103, I used at 26 point. The 
character is only one element. So I enter a bunch of these elements 
and then  place and align each one. What a drag. I vaguely remember 
having a font in which you entered one character and from that point 
you could drag evenly spaced and sized elements as far as necessary. 
It offered fine control. Is anyone aware of such a character and where 
it may be found? I can't find it anywhere in my font files.


Thanks all for your generous support.

Ken


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Re: [Finale] Bill Duncan and rolled chords

[Aaron Sherber]

At 11:30 AM 5/29/2006, D. Keneth Fowler wrote:
The way I have entered the roll sign is very tedious. In the Mozart font
there is a character, number 103, I used at 26 point. The character is only
one element. So I enter a bunch of these elements and then  place and
align each one. What a drag. I vaguely remember having a font in which you
entered one character and from that point you could drag evenly spaced and
sized elements as far as necessary. It offered fine control. Is anyone
aware of such a character and where it may be found? I can't find it
anywhere in my font files.

Um. In all recent versions of Finale there is a predefined roll 
articulation. It uses that character 103, and in the articulation 
definition it has Copy the Main Symbol Vertically checked.


When you place this articulation in the score, you get a little 
squiggle with two handles on it. Move the top handle to place the top 
of the articulation, and then move the bottom handle to stretch the 
squiggle to fill the space you need. After you select either handle, 
I suggest holding down the shift key when you drag, to constrain your 
dragging to pure vertical. (If you drag the lower handle at an angle, 
for example, you'll get a diagonally staggered line of squiggles.)


I am in the habit of always attaching this articulation to the bottom 
note of the chord; this is partly for positioning reasons and partly 
so that I always know which note it's attached to when I'm going back 
over a score. Then I drag the top handle to position the top of the 
roll, and then the bottom handle to set the bottom.


Bill Duncan also has a rolls font (http://www.gwmp.com/Rolls.htm) 
which consists of roll shapes of predefined lengths. You can import 
this as an articulation library and then place a symbol of the 
correct height each time. But unless you have *lots* of rolls in your 
score, and you take the time to set up metatools for each height, I'm 
not sure this will be easier than the method described above.


Aaron.

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