Dominic Alldis,

If I understand you correctly, your steps are

File menu > New > Document With Setup Wizard…

- right?

and then select the document style Handwritten Style

- right?

and then you get a new document where all the expressions are in the engraved font, not in the handwritten font

- right?

and the chord symbols are all in the engraved font, not in the handwritten font

- right?

By The Way:

1) The engraved font is called “Maestro”, not “Finale”.

2) The handwritten fonts are called “… Copyist”, such as Broadway Copyist (not Broadway, there is no music font called Broadway).

Unfortunately I am unable to duplicate your problem.

If I - via the Document Setup Wizard - create a new document with the handwritten style, I do not get anything with the engraved font (= Maestro).

All fonts - in expressions as well as in chord symbols - are clearly handwritten fonts.

On The Other Hand:

If I create a new document with the engraved style, I get engraved fonts in expressions, as well as in chord symbols.

Thank you Peter.  Yes, you have got it precisely and thanks for putting me write about the terminology.  The problem seems to be with V26 Finale as it worked differently in earlier versions - which version are you using?  One of the support people explained Finale had revised all the Fonts & Expressions in this latest version and there is an issue with Handwritten Style and Maestro Fonts and Expressions being loaded simultaneously.  There are of course various workarounds by loading Broadway Copyist Fonts from the library, but then you have both sets available for Expressions which is unnecessary.  It is small issue, but seems obvious to get right.  Dominic

Dominic,

I am using Finale v26.

Can you provide exact steps to reproduce the problem?

As I explained, I was unable to reproduce the problem in my own copy of Finale v26.

OK... and excuse me if some of the terminology is wrong:

1) Go to open new document using Wizard Set-up

2) Create a new document for say "piano" using Handwritten Style

3) When the document is open, try writing any chord symbol and it will be in Maestro (Finale) font and not Broadway Copyist

4) Try adding anything from Expression, e.g. Tempo Marks and it will be in Maestro (Finale) font and not Broadway Copyist

5) The only way to get everything into Handwritten Font is to load them from the Library.  Why is this so?  Furthermore, the Maestro (Finale) Expressions will still be in available options followed by the Broadway Copyist options.

This is what happens for me and seemed to be verified by Heather at the help desk.  She suggested a way forward could be to propose an option to choose either Maestro or Finale fonts when you creating a new document in Wizard.

Incidentally, I am using Mojave 10.14.4 in case this could possibly be a factor if your experience is different?

Thank you for your time on this...

Dominic

Just to be clear... my assumption has been Handwritten Style uses Broadway Copyist Fonts.

Dominic,

I do not get the same results as you. (using Finale 26 in Sierra)

Using the handwritten style, the chord symbols and expressions that I see in my file use the Finale Copyist font. Like Broadway, this is a handwritten style font. It does not use the standard engraved Maestro font.

Update: I just opened Finale 25 and did the same steps and the Broadway Copyist font is used by the setup wizard. So it appears that something changed in FInale 26.

Thank you Jeffrey for confirming a difference between how fonts are loaded differently in Finale 25 and 26.  My point is Handwritten Style Documents clearly use a Broadway Copyist font for the document Titles (e.g. song title), it therefore follows that the same font should be the default for both the Expressions and Chords?  I take your point that Finale Copyist font is also a "handwritten style", but it is not the same as the font being used in the document titling.

In fact, perhaps there should be a choice 3 document styles available in Wizard?

1) Handwritten Finale Style (with Finale Expressions & Fonts as the default), 2) Maestro Style (with Maestro Expressions & Fonts as the default) or 3) Broadway Style (with Broadway Expressions & Fonts as the default).

Dominic,

Since we don't know if and when MakeMusic will offer various font choices as you've pointed out, a solution for your problem could be a custom document style. Look up document styles in the help manual. Basically this allows you to take an existing document and with your preference of fonts and expressions, etc... and you save that as a document style. Perhaps you would call it Broadway style. Then when creating new files with the setup wizard you would choose Broadway instead of Handwritten and you've have everything the way you want.

Thanks Jeffrey.  Yes, I'm aware of this temporary solution.  I'm pleased you understand my point and hopefully it will come to the attention of MakeMusic so that might address it in a future update!