[Finale] Re: 4-line staff

2005-05-18 Thread John Howell
At 12:35 PM -0400 5/18/05, shirling & neueweise wrote: John Howell asked: Why do you want to do this? in larger percussion setups it's quite useful to differentiate between instruments, or instruments types, especially when they change often during the piece. generally, i only use 5-line staves

[Finale] Re: 4-line staff

2005-05-18 Thread shirling & neueweise
From: Christopher Smith I am kind of wondering what the noteheads and accidentals will look like, as they will be larger than on the 5-line staff. they're the same size. -- shirling & neueweise \/ new music notation specialists mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] :.../ http://newmusicnotation.

[Finale] Re: 4-line staff

2005-05-18 Thread shirling & neueweise
John Howell asked: Why do you want to do this? in larger percussion setups it's quite useful to differentiate between instruments, or instruments types, especially when they change often during the piece. generally, i only use 5-line staves in the percussion section for pitched instruments (an

[Finale] Re: 4-line staff

2005-05-18 Thread shirling & neueweise
At 11:16 +0200 5/18/05, Michael Cook wrote : - Create a new staff [...] put both staves at exactly the same height. YES! very good solution. Robert Patterson wrat: I would not recommend aligning two staves as someone else described. Using Speedy in this setup is a nightmare. i remember it being a

Re: [Finale] Re: 4-line staff

2005-05-18 Thread Michael Cook
On 18 May 2005, at 16:46, Robert Patterson wrote: I would not recommend aligning two staves as someone else described. Using Speedy in this setup is a nightmare. I've aligned two staves often and never found it to be a nightmare. Note that in this example, the second staff ONLY has clefs and time

Re: [Finale] Re: 4-line staff

2005-05-18 Thread Jari Williamsson
Robert Patterson wrote: I believe Finale allows for 16 clef definitions. 18. Best regards, Jari Williamsson ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale

Re: [Finale] Re: 4-line staff

2005-05-18 Thread Robert Patterson
Depending on how many different clefs you use in the piece, the clef problem should be easy. I believe Finale allows for 16 clef definitions. So define a set aligned for 4-line staves and a set aligned for 5-line staves and switch as needed. (Is the 4-line staff going to require the full panoply

Re: [Finale] Re: 4-line staff

2005-05-18 Thread Andrew Stiller
it seems to me as though you will be forced to go through the route of using Text/Shape designer and forcing the time and clef in to your desire. I can see the problems with that being that it means you have to add a clef to every staff line so altered in the piece. gregory If that is so, the

Re: [Finale] Re: 4-line staff

2005-05-18 Thread RegoR
On Wed, 18 May 2005 03:06:22 -0400, shirling & neueweise <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: RegoR wrat: Musical BaseLine Offset to 0.17997-- that will raise your clef a quarter tone about. yeah, but that affects positioning globally, so all instances of all other staves will then have the time/clef to

[Finale] Re: 4-line staff

2005-05-18 Thread shirling & neueweise
RegoR wrat: Musical BaseLine Offset to 0.17997-- that will raise your clef a quarter tone about. yeah, but that affects positioning globally, so all instances of all other staves will then have the time/clef too high. i need to be able to mix 5- and 4-line staves in the same document/instrument