Mac Finale, v27.4, Mac OS X 14.7.6 (Sonoma), iMac Apple M3, 24 GB RAM
With the Time Signature Tool you can use one time signature as the “real” time signature, and another time signature for display. You can e. g. create a “real” time signature of 3/4, with a “displa...
Michael Heffren, You have not told us what program you are using. My instructions are for the “full Finale”. I suspect that you are not using the “full Finale”, but rather a smaller Finale si...
In that case I suggest that you use the Resize Tool (icon: %), and context-click on the staff. In the context menu, choose Resize Staff… (in the context menu you can also access Page Scaling and Sy...
My first guess would be that the culprit is missing FAN files for some of the fonts used in your documents. I suggest that you compare the Font Annotation folder for Finale 2012 with the Font Annot...
Even many concertina players are not familiar with the notation you describe. I suggest that you attach an image of the notation here.
You could try another playback instrument. Are you an experienced Finale user? I am not sure how detailed instructions you need?
Unfortunately I do not have Gardner Read’s book any longer. Could you attach a picture of the {hold and release mark}?
Michael Heffren, You wrote: “I have now transposed the single line score using TRANSPOSE MAJOR 2nd in the drop down menu for a Bb instrument which moves the notes up by one whole note. Is this th...
Chiang Ken Phang, It looks like you have found a bug. I suggest that you open a ticket with the folks in MakeMusic’s Tech Support. In your support ticket you can attach both the Finale 2010 docum...
It is not clear to me what you are trying to do, and why. But here are some thoughts: 1) Using the Resize Tool to resize a staff is the last thing you should try. There are a lot of layout proble...