Mac Finale, v27.4, Mac OS X 14.7.6 (Sonoma), iMac Apple M3, 24 GB RAM
… I intend to "bother," no matter what it takes … … No matter how I change it (Note Position Tool, etc.), Finale just changes it back … To avoid that Finale “just changes it back”, go to Preferen...
My first guess would be Blank Notation - since Blank Notation behaves as described. Blank Notation is done with the Staff Tool. There are two ways to create Blank Notation. 1) Via the Staff Att...
I may misunderstand the playback path you need, but the following seems to play back as I read the description in your post. First Ending: Secons Ending:
… Good idea about adding .mus but Sibelius would still not open it … Why use Sibelius to open a Finale document? Why not use Finale? When it has been opened in Finale, you can export the contents...
This is a misunderstanding. Articulation metatools and expression metatools are document specific, not program specific. You can have one set of metatools in one Finale document, and another se...
Unfortunately your description is not clear to me. … that is only one "physical" measure long … By your word “physical”, do you mean playback? So that the audio plays only one rest measure? A m...
… I would like the copied score to look exactly like the original … I would use the Finder to make a duplicate copy of the Finale .musx document. Have you tried that? My expectation is that the d...
I would use the Expression Tool. You can create a new expression category by duplicating an existing category (like e. g. the category Technique Text). Then, name and edit the duplicate as you li...
Take a look at Document menu > Document Options > Music Spacing In the {pane / pop up menu} Manual Positioning what menu item is chosen?
Document menu > Document Options > Music Spacing In the pane Avoid Collision of de-select the option Chords