Christopher Smith
Finale 27.2.0.142 for Mac OS 10.15.7 (Catalina)
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Simple Entry Repitch broken in FinMac 27?
Finale 27, somewhat elderly Mac Mini (late 2014, 2.8 GHz, 8 gigs RAM, Catalina). Repitch in Simple Entry is unusable starting with version 27. Sometimes I can get a note or three to change, but the...
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When a measure has a width of zero inside a repeat ending, Finale crashes when selecting the Repeat Tool
Mac High Sierra, Finale 26.2.2 This set of instructions crashes Finale 100% of the time. Setting the measure width to 1 EVPU (or some other small number) will prevent the crash. It's only a zero ...
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Grace notes in linked voiced parts redux (FIN-4371)
I posted about this rather egregious bug more than two years ago when it was already ten years old. Any chance of some movement on it? Grace notes not spacing correctly in linked voiced parts effec...
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Chord Tool problems redux (FIN-4135)
I submitted a detailed report more than two years ago about the Chord Tool problems, most notably that we presently have no way to resize chord suffixes without completely creating each suffix from...
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Feature request for the Feature Request forum - include bug lists
AnsweredEarly yesterday, I made five feature requests to repair behaviours in Finale that were annoying or simply wrong. Since the time I made my five reports, 42 new posts have come in with feature sugges...
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The Chord Tool has many problems
PlannedWe used to have a kludge to resize chord symbols without destroying their manual kerning. We could assign it to a hidden rest in another layer, then resize the rest so the chord symbol resizes alon...
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Slurs should not disappear in measures that have Slash Notation applied to the first part of the measure.
PlannedSlurs will disappear in measures that have Slash Notation applied to the first part of the measure. This may be true of other Staff Styles as well, but I haven't tested it. To make this bug appea...
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Repeat text expressions need to stay positioned correctly when staves are resized, or at the end of a multimeasure rest
PlannedThey can be properly positioned in the score, yet change their placement by themselves in the parts when parts are generated. This may have something to do with the staff reduction, or certain fixe...
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Articulations on the Rhythmic Notation staff style should obey their placement rules
PlannedArticulations on Rhythmic Notation staff style items now default to BELOW the staff, necessitating dragging them up or creating a new articulation library with new positioning just for Rhythmic Not...
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Grace notes in linked voiced parts should behave properly
AnsweredGrace notes in linked voiced parts (like Flute 1 and Flute 2 on the same score staff, voiced in separate parts) are too close to the notes. This makes linked parts essentially useless, unless I cre...