Hi Susan

From what I can understand, what you want is to use simile marks.

A (very) quick bit of reading, the notation to be used is diagonal slashes. a siingle slash for eighth notes, 2 slashes for 16ths
and 3 slashes for 32nds.

The measure repeat smbol should be used for patterns with mixed notes

At the moments I can only suggest how to get the first option to work.

Enter music as normal. With the staff tool, select the repeated section (beats 2, 3 and 4) Right click and select 01-Slash Notation

An idea might be to hand write what you would like, then post a question with a pic of your example over at the old form http://forum.makemusic.com/default.aspx There are people over there who have a *lot* more experience in getting music notation to work.

Cheers...

Daz :o)

I never thought of using slash notation.  Good idea!  (I'm the one playing it, so it doesn't really need to be fancy or high tech LOL.  I'm transcribing a commissioned work from 1990 into Finale so it's readable.  Fun stuff!)

Hi Susan

I've just found an old post in the Finale forum http://forum.makemusic.com/default.aspx?f=5&m=353188 

It seems to indicate that the single slashes is perfectly acceptable.

Cheers...

Daz :o)

Hi all, I know this is old, but I am having the same issue, except I am transcribing from a manuscript and want to be as faithful to that as I can. The composer has used a repeat symbol (like %%%) to represent repeating the first beat of the measure in 4/4. Is there some way to do that? I've tried hiding the rest and making up my own symbol but that doesn't seem to work as I can't get the symbol to be in the middle of the measure. I have a macbook pro, finale 2014.5.

Thank you,

Alice

Alice Culin-Ellison,

If you do not need the traditional Slash Notation in this particular document, consider customizing the staff style Slash Notation so that the Slash Notation staff style uses the One-Bar Repeat symbol (= %) instead of the traditional Slash Notation symbol.

Then you can apply the Slash Notation staff style to the beats where you need the % symbol.

I hope that this is clear?

If not, ask again.

Yes, like this: in the first bar the % symbol refers to one full beat, in the second bar it refers to two beats. Nice way to save paper.

Is this what you want?

If not, could you post a picture of what you are doing? Do you need playback, or just print?

Mike- Yes, that is what I am looking for. I sort of figured out a way to do it- by googling Maestro font, I was able to figure out which punctuation makes that symbol, then I created an expression, and hid the rests in the measure. If you know of a way to make it playback at the same time, I'd appreciate that, but it is mostly for visual reasons.

Thank you!

To play it back, put the notes in, rather than a rest, and hide them. For the symbol, you did exactly what I did!

To find those "odd" characters in any font, you might want to look into PopChar (www.ergonis.com) available for both Mac and Windows.