My grace notes are always flagged inspite of Doc Options choice

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IAN SWEDLUND Posted June 12, 2021 21:23

Hello

All my grace notes are slashed even though I have deselected the "always flag grace notes" in the Doc Options menu.

The Alt-G toggle doesn't have any effect on the flagging.

I tried putting the flag width to zero which effectively makes the flags invisible when working in Finale, but when I print out the music the flags are there again.

For the moment my only fix is to select the area and use the brilliant JW Plugin to remove the slashes, but this is a nuisance and easy to forget to do.

Many thanks for any suggestions as to how to solve this problem.

Finale 26 and Windows 10

THANKS

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PETER THOMSEN Edited June 12, 2021 23:42

… I tried putting the flag width to zero which effectively makes the flags invisible when working in Finale, but when I print out the music, the flags are there again …

I took a look in Document Options - Flags, and I did not find an option to customize the flag width.

Perhaps you did not mean what you wrote (?), but rather this:

… I tried putting the slash width to zero which effectively makes the slashes invisible when working in Finale, but when I print out the music, the slashes are there again …

For What It Is Worth, I am unable to reproduce this problem.

When I de-select {Always Slash Flagged Grace Notes}, the slashes go away.

* Does the problem happen in all documents? - or is the problem document specific?

IAN SWEDLUND Posted June 13, 2021 06:15

Hello Peter and thanks for your reply.

Yes, I should have said "I put the SLASH width to zero" (not the flag). Sorry!

The problem occurs in all my documents, not just one.

As a bit of detective work, I tried with Finale's default document and, when I deselect "Always Slash Flagged Grace Notes" the grace notes are inserted correctly (without the slash), but if I ever touch them again (to change their pitch etc) or toggle them with Alt-G then they become definitively "slashed" with no possibility to toggle back to non-slashed. This is exactly the same problem that occurs when I use my own starting template document (just a normal file that I always use as my starting doc).

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PETER THOMSEN Edited June 13, 2021 11:15

Since the problem seems to be program specific (not document specific), I suspect that something is “fouled up” in the Preferences.

I suggest that you

- quit Finale,

- trash the Preferences,

- launch Finale again

When launched again, Finale will build new, fresh Preferences.

I am not a Windows user.

If I Recall Correctly, you should remove the files "FINMIDI.ini" and "Finale.ini".

They reside in a sub-directory inside the (usually) hidden AppData directory.

Path:

C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Roaming\MakeMusic\Finale

(or something like that)

IAN SWEDLUND Posted June 14, 2021 07:20

That is great - seems to be working properly now.

I looked around, and the Preference trashing is now easier - just requires a Reset on the Preferences page as far as I can see. Looks like Finale now automates all the editing of the FINMIDI and .ini files, which it didn't used to do. Well I hope so, because that is what I did .........

Thanks once again for the invaluable help and advice.

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