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| Posted By : Motet - 7/21/2012 6:07 PM | Unless I mistakenly changed something, Finale's default placement of articulation trills leaves something to be desired. I thought I I'd share here the tweaks I made to make them look good (to me, at least).
First of all, Center Horizontally is not checked for any of the four trill articulations (tr, tr-flat, tr-sharp, and tr-natural). With this unchecked, the horizonal placement depends on the click position, which can be anywhere above the span of the notehead. Not good.
So, I checked Center Horizontally. One then gets the same placement, regardless of exact centering of the cursor over the note. But notice both horizontal and vertical placement are different for each articulation, which you can see best on the whole note, where I've added all four articulations.
They've tried to compensate vertically by giving a different Default Vertical Position on the flat and natural, but they forgot to do that on the sharp. But even the flat and natural are somewhat different from the plain trill.
I fixed all this by making all four default vertical positions the same (36), and changing the handle positioning offsets instead. As you can see from the whole note, the tr's all now coincide. The EVPU values I came up with are (H,V): tr = (-2,0); tr-flat = (2,-9); tr-sharp = (6,-9); tr-natural=(2,-9).
Hopefully others will find this useful. Maybe I'll write this up for Mike Rosen's tips page.
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| Posted By : Motet - 7/21/2012 6:12 PM | Sorry about the giant pictures, but it helps to see things close up.
Have things improved with 2012? I'll attach the "before" .MUS file.
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| Posted By : Motet - 7/21/2012 6:26 PM | And here's the "after" file with the altered articulations.
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| Posted By : Zuill - 7/21/2012 8:05 PM | I think things are about the same in 2012.
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| Posted By : KennethKen - 7/21/2012 8:35 PM | Thanks for the tip. It's timely for a project I'm currently working on. Do you have settings for the other fonts?
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| Posted By : Motet - 7/21/2012 11:15 PM | I'm afraid not. But the way I did it was I put the unadorned tr on a note and zoomed way in, 500% or something like that. After adjusting the trill's horizontal offsets to get it centered over the note, I put the other trills on top of that one, separately one at a time, and adjusted their offsets until they lined up exactly with the first one.
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| Posted By : KennethKen - 8/6/2012 12:51 PM | Motet,
I've noticed that the tr symbol, to my eye, doesn't look as centered when on an upstem note (especially when the notehead is below the staff making the nearest visual reference the note's stem). I don't see a way that Finale let's us choose different settings for upstem vs downstem notes (I use "Above note" as the Positioning/Position) and Jaris JW Change plugin doesn't seem to have a way to move trill symbols filtered bythe stem direction of its attached note (or the note's displacement, i.e., >0 vs <0).
Have you found a solution to this type of problem?
Ken
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| Posted By : Motet - 8/6/2012 1:23 PM | I agree with you it looks better centered over the stem. I don't have Finale in front of me, but as I recall there are two sets of handle offsets you can specify, but I think alas they're for above and below note rather than upstem/downstem, so that doesn't help.
With the trills I just live with it. But in the past I've had two copies of certain articulations (specifically, the marcato ^), one for upstem and one for downstem. You could do that with the trills and adjust the horizontal handle offset accordingly for the upstem versions.
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| Posted By : Motet - 8/6/2012 1:35 PM | To clarify--get the above versions working for whatever font you're using, then make copies of each in the articulation dialog for the upstem versions. You should end up adding the same amount to all the horizontal handle offsets to get them centered over the stems.
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| Posted By : KennethKen - 8/6/2012 4:38 PM | That's what I was afraid of. Duplicating the articulations is so 90's. I'll see if Jari can help.
Ken
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| Posted By : Motet - 8/6/2012 5:50 PM | Personally, I would rather have two sets of articulations rather than having to run a plug-in every time.
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| Posted By : KennethKen - 8/6/2012 9:51 PM |
Motet said...
Personally, I would rather have two sets of articulations rather than having to run a plug-in every time. If you end up transposing the music or do alot of copying and pasting between different octaves and/or instruments with different transpositions you'll then have to handle/edit each tr individually...which kind of defeats the purpose. Personally, I'd love it if Finale had different HV settings for upstem vs downstem for articulations AND expressions - it already has separate H settings for up vs downstem tuplets.
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| Posted By : Motet - 8/6/2012 11:15 PM | Though, unless they've fixed it, the tuplets are still problemmatic.
That's a good point about copying and pasting, and I did run into that with my carets. Up- and down-stem settings make more sense than above/below settings, actually.
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| Posted By : KennethKen - 8/7/2012 6:36 AM |
Motet said...
Though, unless they've fixed it, the tuplets are still problemmatic. Absolutely true. They "fixed" tuplets to the same degree they "fixed" the wild shaping of engraver slurs.
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| Posted By : Motet - 8/7/2012 10:43 AM | On the other hand, remember the pre-"designer" tuplets?
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