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Jack Helsley
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  		   Posted 10/16/2016 6:01 PM (GMT -6)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
Apologies if this has been answered. I'm using Finale 2014.5 on El Capitan. I'm having accidental collisions. Earlier in the piece, it's fine, but later it collides, and I can't fix with Music Spacing:
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  		   Posted 10/16/2016 6:17 PM (GMT -6)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
It looks like your systems are overfilled. Try one or 2 less measures per system. Do you have "avoid collisions of chords" checked in Music Spacing options? That can result in raggedy spacing. I never use that option, but that's just me.

Try less music per system so the eighths are evenly spaced, and move the chords slightly if you need to. That would be my approach.

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  		   Posted 10/16/2016 7:13 PM (GMT -6)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
Yeah, you're just trying to crowd too much onto the system. Even jazz music should look well engraved.

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Jack Helsley
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  		   Posted 10/17/2016 9:24 AM (GMT -6)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
Well...thanks for the support of "jazz"?...No one has addressed the question why it's fine on one system, but the exact same music is "too crowded" on another? (Although, I sense your preferred answer would be "change them to triads")?
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  		   Posted 10/17/2016 9:39 AM (GMT -6)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
Jack Helsley,

To find the culprit we may need to see a (small) Finale sample document with the problem.
I suggest that you attach a small Finale document here.

Having an actual document to examine might be faster than “shooting in the dark”/guessing.
While guessing we might just be asking you a lot of technical questions you could not understand.

Peter

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  		   Posted 10/17/2016 9:50 AM (GMT -6)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
Here you are:

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  		   Posted 10/17/2016 12:52 PM (GMT -6)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
Jack Helsley,

Indeed the spacing is tight, “crowded”.

You are using a scaling percentage of 85 %.

That is a bit too big for professional engraving (unless the engraving is for students at beginner level).

Take a look at the attached document where I have reduced the scaling percentage to 75 %.
As Far As I Can Tell, the reduced scaling percentage has eliminated all the accidental collisions.

Peter

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  		   Posted 10/17/2016 2:53 PM (GMT -6)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
And besides, you'd locked the systems so Finale couldn't spread out the music the way it would have had to in order to create good line spacing. If you remove the system locks and update the layout, Finale adds two systems to the piece, just going to show that you tried to crowd the music too much. However, I agree with Peter that the scaling is too large (IMHO, even for beginners!) and that 75% works better and allows the layout on two pages without squashing. One unfortunate flaw in Finale's spacing: the accidentals aren't always placed well (kerned or tucked) in chords. The flat before the E in the A half diminished 7th chord (mm. 1 and 3) should be moved over about 28 EVPUs, just like both accidentals in the G half diminished 7th chords in m. 5, and in a number of chords after that. Good kerning of the accidentals helps the chords take up no more space than necessary and it just looks better. Plugins like TG Tools can help with this but unfortunately it doesn't belong to Finale's basic functionality.

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  		   Posted 10/17/2016 4:54 PM (GMT -6)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
I disagree that the scaling is too large. To my understanding, such large scaling is customary in large parts of the jazz and show music world.

As Vaughan suggests, unlock your systems and be sure to move some of your accidentals closer to the notes using the Special Tools/Accidentals Tool. After that, your music should fit just fine on two pages with your current spacing settings.

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  		   Posted 10/17/2016 5:25 PM (GMT -6)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
Thanks all!
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