Great. In over 15 years of using Finale, not once do I remember stacking articulations.

Thanks for this!

Mike, for many scores including strings, especially educational music, this will be useful in displaying bowing marks that are coincidental with another articulation (accent, staccato). Same thing for jazz drum parts containing cymbal style indicators (+ and o). Same thing for more contemporary notation where more than one specialized symbol appears stacked above a single note. And while I don't engrave piano music or classical guitar music, this is bound to be helpful when dealing with multiple fingerings displayed on a single note. For me, this is a small but major feature.

Bruce,

I'm very happy that it will help you. But I'm waiting for something that will help me! (Which, of course, you will probably never use.) Such is life!

Just think, Mike: now you can tell the lead tenor in your barbershop group to sing his final note on a down-bow and hold it. :-)

Although this technique may not be directly applicable to everyone, perhaps the announcements will be staged to get bigger and better as they continue.

One can only hope...

I didn’t know this was a problem but I’m ok with the solution, I guess...

So, what else?

I certainly hope this means the auto-positioning bug that causes certain articulations to change vertical position onscreen in certain circumstances is fixed as well. Auto-stacking articulations WITHOUT this bug fix would be frustrating in the extreme.

Good point, Christopher! That's been a bug for as long as I can remember and is triggered by having more than one layer; it would indeed make a mess of auto-stacking articulations. I know that they've been working on this for some time so I'm hoping that they've ironed this one out.

Hey Chris and Vaughan,

Having the new changes in articulations destroyed by a bug that you are encountering would be terrible indeed. I am not sure that I know the exact issue that you are referring to. I would like to be though, especially if it is still affecting Finale in v25 and could possibly effect v26. If you can recreate this issue in v25, can you provide the steps to do so? That would be much appreciated. 

Hi David,

Here is a discussion, though there was no case number assigned that I know of. 

https://makemusic.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/community/posts/115000301827-Fermatas-keep-flipping-up-and-down-won-t-stay-on-one-side-of-note-or-rest-?page=1#community_comment_115000339607

Here is a related bug, where articulations get duplicated willy-nilly when imploding or exploding chords. I understand why upon imploding (though I would rather it didn't happen) but upon exploding? That makes no sense. FIN-4336

 And here is another, probably related articulation bug, where articulations get moved to BELOW the staff when Rhythmic Notation Staff Style is applied, instead of above the staff where they are supposed to be. This suddenly started happening in version 2009, and was correct up until that version. It's been almost ten years this bug exists, and I would hate to see how it interacts with the new auto stacking feature. FIN-4017

Christopher, thanks for the update. That is very helpful and much appreciated!