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MakeMusic Forum > Public Forums > Finale - Macintosh - FORUM HAS MOVED! > Why do slurs not follow rules? | Forum Quick Jump
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| Charles Lawrence Registered Member
Date Joined Dec 2009 Total Posts : 3638 | Posted 12/26/2016 4:57 PM (GMT -6) | | A quote from the User's Manual:
"Constrained dragging is temporarily disabled while slurs are being edited. Use SHIFT to enable it while editing slurs."
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| Charles Lawrence Registered Member
Date Joined Dec 2009 Total Posts : 3638 | Posted 12/27/2016 4:34 PM (GMT -6) | |
Writer of Music said...When "Automatically Constrain Dragging" is set in the preferences, why can slurs still be dragged in any direction (without shift being pressed)?
Because that's the way it is designed.
Quote from manual: "Constrained dragging is temporarily disabled while slurs are being edited."
With SHIFT held down, constrained dragging is back in effect where you can move in one direction only, the first direction you move with SHIFT held down.
Quote from manual: "Use SHIFT to enable it while editing slurs."
If you enable "Automatically constrain dragging" in preferences, everything but slurs will be constrained from the outset, and pressing SHIFT will release the constraint temporarily. As Motet suggested, unconstrained dragging of slurs, even if constrained dragging is turned on from the outset, seems the most logical default action. "Anything is possible if you don't know what you are talking about!"
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3.50 gigahertz Intel Core i7-5930K, Multi-core (6 total), Hyper-threaded (12 total)
32638 Megabytes Usable Installed Memory, 17514.37 Gigabytes Usable Hard Drive Capacity NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 - 4GB [Display adapter]
ASUS Rampage V Extreme motherboard, Realtek HD Audio
Finale 2014.5.6359, Finale 25.2.0.92 Garritan GPO4.02
Cakewalk SONAR X3 - (X3e build 244) - x64, Sound Forge Audio Studio 10.0, Audacity 2.1.0 Sharpeye 2.68, PhotoScore Ultimate 7.0.2, SmartScore X2 Pro 10.5.8
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| Charles Lawrence Registered Member
Date Joined Dec 2009 Total Posts : 3638 | Posted 12/27/2016 7:38 PM (GMT -6) | |
Writer of Music said...Dear mr. Lawrence, I am able to read. Are you?
Of course I am able to read. It would appear that either you cannot read or cannot comprehend what is read. I posted a quote from the user's manual that explains that while editing slurs, which includes when you first enter them, that, by design, unconstrained movement overrides any constraint on editing slurs, unless pressing SHIFT. That seems to be a logical default for slurs, since they are so flexible.
O dear me! I have done what I said I would never do again. That is, to respond to whoever the "Writer of Music" is. I, long ago, said I would refuse to respond to any post from that user. I did not put this person on ignore. I thought that over a period of time, this user would become more civil. Alas, it has not, and apparently will not, happen. Believe me now, when I once again say that I will never again respond to a post from whoever this person is. "Anything is possible if you don't know what you are talking about!"
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32638 Megabytes Usable Installed Memory, 17514.37 Gigabytes Usable Hard Drive Capacity NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 - 4GB [Display adapter]
ASUS Rampage V Extreme motherboard, Realtek HD Audio
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Cakewalk SONAR X3 - (X3e build 244) - x64, Sound Forge Audio Studio 10.0, Audacity 2.1.0 Sharpeye 2.68, PhotoScore Ultimate 7.0.2, SmartScore X2 Pro 10.5.8
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| Writer of Music Registered Member
Date Joined Aug 2011 Total Posts : 848 | Posted 12/27/2016 7:52 PM (GMT -6) | | And in return I will be freed from comments that completely miss the point.
Have we learned a lesson? By now, some of you must find me as annoying as I find the shortcomings and flaws in Finale. It bugs you, doesn’t it? Only difference is, you could have chosen to ignore me as you said you would (but didn’t, you rather felt the urge to be hostile and insult me, uncalled for), I , on the other hand, can’t ignore the incongruences and inconsistencies of Finale, because they are there. And guess what, they bug me as well. Finale 25.2 Mac OS X 10.11.6.Post Edited (Writer of Music) : 12/27/2016 8:18:06 PM (GMT-6) | Back to Top | | Forum Information | Currently it is Tuesday, December 19, 2023 6:29 PM (GMT -6) There are a total of 403,820 posts in 58,165 threads. In the last 3 days there were 0 new threads and 0 reply posts. View Active Threads
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