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
IIRC, it was Finale 2014 which started using the .musx extension, meaning that all files will (in principle) be compatible with all future versions, both backwards and forwards. Version 2014 also h...
The idea is that certain expressions, like tempo marks and tempo changes, apply to all staves and therefore don't need to be on every staff in a score or, in large scores, perhaps only on the top s...
Good point, Christopher! That's been a bug for as long as I can remember and is triggered by having more than one layer; it would indeed make a mess of auto-stacking articulations. I know that they...
P.S. Have you looked in the Finale User Manual under Music Spacing? There you'll find all the information you need, including what's been said here. Turning on Automatic Music Spacing for entering ...
There are keyboard shortcuts for many of Finale's functions and most of us have created others via the OS and/or a macro program. The function being referred to here is Utilities/Music Spacing/Appl...
This is actually a shortcoming in Finale. Notes a second apart are offset correctly, but if Manual Positioning is set to Incorporate or Ignore, transposing the offset notes won't reposition them pr...
It's always a good idea to develop a good workflow. Enter notes, articulations, smart shapes, expressions and, if applicable, lyrics, and only then work on layout and manual adjustments. Doing this...
Hilarious! I hadn't seen the date on the first post. The question is, how did this thread get bumped up, making me assume it was current?
Do you really need to be extracting parts instead of leaving them linked? Since the implementation of linked parts, I've only had to extract parts on very rare occasions.
There are two ways. One is to go to Document/Data Check/Font Utilities... and then select Search for This Font. You can choose the old font and then the button Replace Font With will become availab...