Composer, retired academic
Hi Michel, yes as you say it's a very common/ordinary issue that occurs frequently and MakeMusic should create a menu item. The workaround you outline works for you and probably don't change it. Ho...
Experimented since I posted and answered my own question...in Articulation tool, I chose the paranthesised accidentals as part of Finale Maestro's Unicode palette to attach them to the notes and us...
btw, I haven't checked the Bartok scores and only going by the reference
Hi David "Fingernail pizzicato was used by composers at least as early as Bartok, in the second violin part of his String Quartet No. 5 (1936, p. 8) and his Music for Strings, Percussion and Celest...
Hi Mike, I've done considerable research again and Bartok and Carter used it fairly early on...many string players use the nail symbol that is in Finale Maestro SMuFL...I find the standard size of ...
Aaaahhh....this is what I was after...I used Plug-Ins>Patterson Plug-ins>Miscellanous>Find Expression... Got the Expressions table/list and selected the blank Expression element and got this in Sco...
Thanks Mike I've already got Prefs<Edit: Substitute Fonts for missing Unicode characters ticked. I've gone to the Expressions tool and tried to delete the blank Expression and got this dialog box: ...
re font substitution ....yep and fairly excited by the new Finale Maestro Unicode font with all the collated symbols... ah, remember all the PS and Font and PDF wars in the 90s and what a pain it w...
macOS 12.6.1 Monterey and Finale 27.3 bought with Garritan. Most of my scores have used PS Type 1 fonts. Haven't composed much since 2010 but now need to update all scores to include archival PDF. ...