Mac Finale, v27.4, Mac OS X 14.7.6 (Sonoma), iMac Apple M3, 24 GB RAM
You are using Mac Finale - right? What version?
… I'm presuming you're hitting at some pleasantly clever idea yet to be shared? … Not really. It is possible to have the barline drawn through the staves after 5 violin meters. I explained how ...
… Since you answered most of it, the one thing that hasn't yet been is how to incorporate the parenthesis () … I would use the Expression Tool. By The Way, a thought about your Example 1: You w...
… I do not want to place the rest in the staff, but just in the lyrics … Inserting the rest character in the lyrics has its own problems - since the Lyrics Tool is not designed for that. One prob...
The following is very old Mac OS news. Many of the ordinary keys on the computer keyboard are mapped to keyboard combinations of the form {control - Letter key}. You can try holding down the cont...
For example 2 it is unclear what you mean: … create each time signature component as a separate measure (e. g. 3/2 would be measure 1, 7/8 would be measure 2, etc.) … A) This sounds like the fi...
For example 1 I would use a (big) Composite Time Signature of {3 over 4+8} + {1 over 2+4} (that is right; multiple characters in one field) This big time signature will (almost) give the desired ...
Thomas W. Billing, Are you still using Mac Finale? - perhaps v27?
Mathias Foldager, How about making a backup copy of the Finale document, and customize the playback of the backup copy? In that way you can both “eat the cake and keep it”.
Welcome to the forum! What were your steps when you added staves to the score? Did you use the Instrument List? Or did you use the Staff Tool?