Re: [Finale] Cross staff notes and artics

2004-03-17 Thread Mark D Lew
On Mar 16, 2004, at 3:39 PM, Aaron Sherber wrote: I have a piano staff with notes entered in the treble staff and some of them dragged down to the bass staff. I find I am unable to get articulations positioned correctly on the cross-staff notes -- even when I drag them to where I want them,

Re: [Finale] Cross staff notes and artics

2004-03-17 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 03:14 AM 3/17/2004, Mark D Lew wrote: When you drag an articulation on a cross-staff note, the display routine during the dragging doesn't take the cross-staff into account properly, so during the drag (or nudge) you are in non-wysiwyg mode. The adjustment you make to the articulation is

Re: [Finale] Cross staff notes and artics

2004-03-17 Thread David Horne
On Wed, 17 Mar 2004 07:31:48 -0500, Aaron Sherber [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: At 03:14 AM 3/17/2004, Mark D Lew wrote: When you drag an articulation on a cross-staff note, the display routine during the dragging doesn't take the cross-staff into account properly, so during the drag (or nudge)

Re: [Finale] Cross staff notes and artics

2004-03-17 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 09:55 AM 3/17/2004, David Horne wrote: Apologies if this has been mentioned before, but if you do a lot of cross staff notation, it's worth having alternate articulations handy, defined as metatools, which take this into account. Yes. I don't like going that route unless I have *lots* of

Re: [Finale] Cross staff notes and artics

2004-03-17 Thread David Horne
On Wed, 17 Mar 2004 10:27:41 -0500, Aaron Sherber [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: At 09:55 AM 3/17/2004, David Horne wrote: Apologies if this has been mentioned before, but if you do a lot of cross staff notation, it's worth having alternate articulations handy, defined as metatools, which take

Re: [Finale] Cross staff notes and artics

2004-03-17 Thread Mark D Lew
On Mar 17, 2004, at 4:31 AM, Aaron Sherber wrote: Well, then it's gotten worse in 2004. In order to get the artic to move down, I have to drag it up, and vice versa. Now that you mention it, I remember encountering this behavior before, too. Something to do with stem directions, I think. I

[Finale] Cross staff notes and artics

2004-03-16 Thread Aaron Sherber
Hi all, WinFin2004b I have a piano staff with notes entered in the treble staff and some of them dragged down to the bass staff. I find I am unable to get articulations positioned correctly on the cross-staff notes -- even when I drag them to where I want them, they bounce to some completely

Re: [Finale] Cross staff notes and artics

2004-03-16 Thread Richard Huggins
I can't speak to version 4 stuff, but it works pretty well for me in 2k2. When you say even when I drag them do you mean the articulations or the notes? Are you entering the articulations when the notes are in their original staff (before using cross staff)? In case it helps if working on the

Re: [Finale] Cross staff notes and artics

2004-03-16 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 08:15 PM 3/16/2004, Richard Huggins wrote: When you say even when I drag them do you mean the articulations or the notes? Are you entering the articulations when the notes are in their original staff (before using cross staff)? I mean dragging the articulations, and it doesn't matter if I enter

Re: [Finale] Cross staff notes and artics

2004-03-16 Thread Harold Owen
Title: Re: [Finale] Cross staff notes and artics Aaron Sherber writes: Hi all, WinFin2004b I have a piano staff with notes entered in the treble staff and some of them dragged down to the bass staff. I find I am unable to get articulations positioned correctly on the cross-staff notes -- even

Re: [Finale] Cross staff notes and artics

2004-03-16 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 09:19 PM 3/16/2004, Harold Owen wrote: I've found that it's helpful to create new articulations for cross-staff notes. In the Articulation dialog box use Duplicate then Edit and set manual positioning. Then the new articulations will stay put. This is true, but it shouldn't be necessary. These