fingered tremolo

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OCTO
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Re: fingered tremolo

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In your example:
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- the first viola, first slur is a typical Finale (and other software) slur appearance: the slur's direction is downwards and the notes are going upwards. That could be edited.
- the second viola, the slur can cross the flat's symbol stem. Be cautious, though!

* I have some difficulty with the music text font you use: it is probably Minion, and all similar such as Garamond or Caslon really look odd when used as italics, they simply said have a completely different structure than the regular :forte :piano :ni :ri etc.
* The "pupitre" is a technical term, it should not be italic.
* The notes' stems appear to have more width than the barline. It could be the same or the opposite.
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Re: fingered tremolo

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Thank you for the deep review! I'll make some updates today.

EDIT: I had barlines only at 2 EVPUs, compared to 3.5 for stems. I made the barlines match the stems.
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Re: fingered tremolo

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hautbois baryton wrote: 17 Dec 2023, 20:37 EDIT: I had barlines only at 2 EVPUs, compared to 3.5 for stems. I made the barlines match the stems.
And Staff lines?
Finale Default is notorious for its very very tiny templates (lines).
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Re: fingered tremolo

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OCTO wrote: 17 Dec 2023, 22:44
hautbois baryton wrote: 17 Dec 2023, 20:37 EDIT: I had barlines only at 2 EVPUs, compared to 3.5 for stems. I made the barlines match the stems.
And Staff lines?
Finale Default is notorious for its very very tiny templates (lines).
Ooh, that does look much better! I've updated my templates!
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