Ties after system break
Posted: 09 Apr 2020, 12:44
I tried to search the forum for this topic, but found nothing. If it has been discussed before, please, someone, direct me to that thread.
I've grown increasingly aware of, and impatient with, the ugliness of Finale's ties when continuing after a system break. Here are a few examples of how they look with the program's defaults: And here is the result of rather laborious adjustments, in Document Options, with Measure Tool, as well as manually with Special Tools: All "b measures" had to be given an extra 0,1 cm space at the beginning to make the ties look less squeezed in.
In Document Options/Ties/Tie Direction "Opposing seconds" was unchecked to avoid the collisions of ties in 3 and 4.
In Tie Contour suboption the height of short-span ties was diminished to 0,12 cm (from 0,16 cm), to make them possible to place between staff lines, and to look less "Finalish".
In Ex. 1b, 3b and 4b some of the middle ties had to be manually nudged up/down with Special Tools to avoid collisions with staff lines.
This is much ado about, well perhaps not nothing, but too much ado about too little. Anyone knows about a more clever way to do this?
I've grown increasingly aware of, and impatient with, the ugliness of Finale's ties when continuing after a system break. Here are a few examples of how they look with the program's defaults: And here is the result of rather laborious adjustments, in Document Options, with Measure Tool, as well as manually with Special Tools: All "b measures" had to be given an extra 0,1 cm space at the beginning to make the ties look less squeezed in.
In Document Options/Ties/Tie Direction "Opposing seconds" was unchecked to avoid the collisions of ties in 3 and 4.
In Tie Contour suboption the height of short-span ties was diminished to 0,12 cm (from 0,16 cm), to make them possible to place between staff lines, and to look less "Finalish".
In Ex. 1b, 3b and 4b some of the middle ties had to be manually nudged up/down with Special Tools to avoid collisions with staff lines.
This is much ado about, well perhaps not nothing, but too much ado about too little. Anyone knows about a more clever way to do this?