Greetings!

When using automatic Rehearsal Letters, is there any way of creating the sequence to automatically carry on with Aa, Bb, Cc after Z, or are we stuck with AA, BB, CC?

Many thanks

Andreo Basisto

Greetings David

Many thanks for your reply. Your link mentions the Aa-Bb-Cc sequence but doesn't say how it's achieved! Elsewhere there's mention of upper case/lower case and even a aA-bB-cC sequence, so now I'm even more curious.

Shortly after posting, I came up with one possibility. After X,Y, Z, go back to A, B, C and, in addition, use a, b, c with an additional horizontal offset positoning of 0.7. This means I’ll have to forgo the square enclosure shape, though….

Andreo Basisto

Andreo,

It is possible to use auto sequencing to accomplish aA, aB, aC, ..., or Aa, Ab, Ac, ..., but not Aa, Bb, Cc, ... .  That will have to be done manually like David Ward's link implied, I think.

As I learned from this forum not too long ago, you can actually add any textual prefix and/or suffix to the automatic sequencing as supplied by MM.  Just duplicate any given sequence in the "Expression Selection" dialog box, and add whatever prefix and/or suffix you desire within the Text area box.  It is not obvious that you can do this, but it does work.  In my example above I prefixed an "a" to the standard A, B, C, ..., sequence, then I prefixed an "A" to the standard a, b, c, ..., sequence.  By doing this, any enclosure you setup will be maintained.

Post Edited (Charles Lawrence) : 8/3/2012 12:17:20 PM (GMT-5)

Greetings again

Many thanks for these various responses to my question. I now see that David’s earlier thread referred only to ‘Aa’ which I assumed would carry on with Bb, Cc. Thanks to Charles, I have realised my error there.

Yes, it is possible to create these markings manually, but the piece I’m working on at the moment goes up to Xx and I have to keep to that sequence.

I cannot open Zuill’s file as I have F2011. However, I have managed to stretch the enclosure box by setting the width to 0.75 in the dialog box for the upper case letter. I also entered  0.3 in the H: centre dialog box to move the letter to the right. That  gives me space for the lower case letter, which by keeping my settings as in my 2nd posting this thread, means the two letters are now side by side. So, yes, two actions, but thanks to Zuill I still have my enclosure box!

Motet – Yes,  I use metatool M for the upper case and N for the lower case, so that’s easily accomplished.

Andreo Basisto

Greetings and thanks

The figures I’m using differ greatly from Zuill’s but they do work and I’m pleased that with a bit of help I managed to arrive at a similar solution!

Andreo

Greetings!

I have to add a P.S. to this thread. The composer misses out Nn and goes to Oo. I discovered that selecting either N or n  to adjust with Edit Rehearsal Mark Sequence changes both letters correctly! Amazing! Finale the mind-reader?

Andreo Basisto