Finale 3.2 - 26, Sibelius 4 - 7, Dorico Tobias Giesen's plugins, full version, Robert Patterson plugins, Jari's plugins MacOS 10.14 MacPro (2016) 16 GB, MacBookPro (2018) 16 GB Amsterdam
The articulations don't necessarily get borked at all. Download the newest version of Finale and experiment with the settings when opening old files as to whether or not to update articulation posi...
You're using Windows so I can't really comment but I've seldom had problems with Finale not recognising properly-installed fonts. I use a number of third party fonts for all sorts of projects and t...
Christopher beat me to the draw! I also second his advice that you acquaint yourself with Finale's basic functions.
If you have two tied notes and you want to remove the tie, all you need to do is (in Simple Entry) to place the caret on the first note and press = or 't'.
Here's the way you should create a triplet which spans two measures.
We understand your problem just fine. Why don't you use Tchaikovsky's solution presented by Martin Haub above? It is correct and can easily be created in Finale. The solution by Mike and Jeffrey is...
Indeed. In Mike's mock-up, the measure lengths aren't really correct. One quarter + one eighth + one eighth triplet doth not a 2/4 measure make! Same with the next measure...
You can place a staff style on any measure or portion of a measure.
Just curious why you flipped the stem on the eighth chord. That’s the reason for the strange placement of the noteheads and especially for the fact that they’re different from the placement in the ...
Hate to say this, Richard, but that position just looks wrong. There are pretty strict notational rules about how to position noteheads in a chord and this goes against them. Personally I don't fin...