Re: [Finale] Another Music Spacing Issue

2004-03-28 Thread Mark D Lew
On Mar 27, 2004, at 3:28 PM, David W. Fenton wrote: Yes, apparently. But it's spotting *something* and I don't quite understand why it thinks what it's seeing is the right thing to do -- I can't conceive of circumstances where the spacing it provides would ever be correct, accidentals or dots

Re: [Finale] Another Music Spacing Issue

2004-03-28 Thread Mark D Lew
On Mar 27, 2004, at 5:38 PM, Mark D Lew wrote: An example where this makes sense is not common, but not inconceivable either. Imagine that [...] Reviewing this, I see I'm overthinking it. A more common situation is this: In the RH piano, the upstem voice is following the melody but with

Re: [Finale] Another Music Spacing Issue

2004-03-27 Thread Mark D Lew
On Mar 26, 2004, at 12:36 PM, David W. Fenton wrote: Here's the problem: If layer 2 is a chord instead of a single note, the spacing is completely wrong -- the layer 1 note is spaced by itself and the layer 2 chord is spaced way out to the right, as though the two didn't occur in the same metric

Re: [Finale] Another Music Spacing Issue

2004-03-27 Thread David H. Bailey
Mark D Lew wrote: [snip] Do you have automatic music spacing turned on? If not, it seems to me you shouldn't ever have to move the dot. In the procedure you spelled out, the dot got moved only because you spaced it once and Finale figured it right, then you added and spaced again and

Re: [Finale] Another Music Spacing Issue

2004-03-27 Thread Crystal Premo
Yes. That matches experience in Fin Mac 2k2. I don't remember this ever working perfectly. In the old days, Finale didn't try to fix spacing for seconds in separate layers at all, so that the noteheads were just on top of each other. Later, spacing for seconds was added, whereupon it gets it

Re: [Finale] Another Music Spacing Issue

2004-03-27 Thread David W. Fenton
On 26 Mar 2004 at 19:58, Christopher BJ Smith wrote: I ran into the same bug in FinMac 2003, and reported it, and apparently it is a problem with the way the feature was implemented, to be corrected in later versions (I haven't checked in 2004, as I rarely use OSX these days.) The way

Re: [Finale] Another Music Spacing Issue

2004-03-27 Thread David W. Fenton
On 26 Mar 2004 at 23:59, Mark D Lew wrote: On Mar 26, 2004, at 12:36 PM, David W. Fenton wrote: Here's the problem: If layer 2 is a chord instead of a single note, the spacing is completely wrong -- the layer 1 note is spaced by itself and the layer 2 chord is spaced way out to the

[Finale] Another Music Spacing Issue

2004-03-26 Thread David W. Fenton
Is my version of Finale set up wrong, or are there simply lots of things about music spacing that have gone wrong in the last couple of versions of Finale? First there was the blank notation affecting spacing, and now I see all sorts of problems with spacing between layers with seconds and

Re: [Finale] Another Music Spacing Issue

2004-03-26 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 03:36 PM 03/26/2004, David W. Fenton wrote: Can anyone confirm this? Yep. I reported that (or something very similar) to Coda a year or two ago. Aaron. ___ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale

Re: [Finale] Another Music Spacing Issue

2004-03-26 Thread David W. Fenton
On 26 Mar 2004 at 15:43, Aaron Sherber wrote: At 03:36 PM 03/26/2004, David W. Fenton wrote: Can anyone confirm this? Yep. I reported that (or something very similar) to Coda a year or two ago. Is the problem still present in Finale 2004? -- David W. Fenton

Re: [Finale] Another Music Spacing Issue

2004-03-26 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 03:59 PM 03/26/2004, David W. Fenton wrote: Is the problem still present in Finale 2004? Yes. Incidentally, Fin2004 has struck me as generally the buggiest of the recent Finale releases. Aaron. ___ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Finale] Another Music Spacing Issue

2004-03-26 Thread Christopher BJ Smith
I ran into the same bug in FinMac 2003, and reported it, and apparently it is a problem with the way the feature was implemented, to be corrected in later versions (I haven't checked in 2004, as I rarely use OSX these days.) The way around it is to enter the passage with the dots and the