#Finale 2014.5 measure repeat symbol full#

Corrects wrong horizontal position of a niente hairpin expression under a rest. pp and mf get a reduced vertical offset value compared to fff, so that the actual distance to a note or articulation is identical). Alignment of expressions is content-dependent (e.g. It doesn't work the other way round yet: centered dynamics on very low notes are kept on the centered position and will not be shifted left and upwards. Dynamic expressions attached to very low notes and shifted left and upwards are kept on that position and will not be centered below the note to avoid very low dynamics. Corrects vertical alignment of hairpins with line breaks (i.e. Positions dynamics expressions in the centre below the note. Moves dynamic expression up on slash staff style measure with invisible very low notes. on drumset parts with lots of slash notation. Moves dynamic expressions slightly up on systems with slash staff style measures where no other object goes below the bottom staff line. Adjacent hairpins and dynamic expressions are connected with a small visual gap in between. Dynamic expressions and expressive text on the same measure position are aligned horizontally and vertically. Vertical alignment is reset after a few measures, a certain distance and on each new system. Hairpins and dynamic expressions below the staff are aligned vertically (expressive text in conjunction with dynamic expressions also). Expressions and hairpins are aligned horizontally and vertically, and, if necessary, corrected in its measure position according to a great number of (notation) rules that try to achieve a visually balanced, musically clear and collision-free look. In most cases this system works fine, but from time to time there are situations where the suggested solution is not the optimum. It is not a general collision avoidance system that checks all surrounding elements and calculates the best spacing solution. Not all slur parameters are currently supported, unsymmetric slurs may still have tiny collisions.Įach collision system just checks the collisions of two individual elements. Tremolo articulations on whole notes are corrected. Removes collision of glissando lines with accidentals and augmentation dots (together with optimized vertical alignment). Removes collision of Voice1/Layer1 dynamic expressions with Voice2/Layer2 notes). Removes collision of voice 1 note with voice 2 articulation. Removes collision of rehearsal mark letters, rehearsal mark texts and tempo mark text expressions with notes, articulations and left-aligned chord symbols. Removes collision of ottava and trill lines (not custom line trills) with notes, accidentals and articulations (on top of the staff only). Removes collision of text repeats and notes, articulations and multi-measure rest numbers (on top of the staff only). Removes collision of trill line smartshapes with up/down bow articulations. Removes collision of dynamic expressions with slurs, ties, repeat brackets, notes, accidentals and barlines (below staff only). Removes collision of (standard) articulations with (one!) other articulation on top of the staff, with slurs (only if connected with start or end note of slur), ties and dynamic expressions. , expressions, barlines and repeat brackets (below staff only). Removes collision of hairpins with slurs, ties, notes, articulations (except with articulations between the start/end note of top slurs)

Image 3: The Perfect Layout User Interface (for details see here) The red and blue measure numbers were added afterwards to the image to help identifying the measures. Image 1: Before/after the Perfect Layout plug-in ( View in higher resolution) More before/after examples are available in the Example and Video section.įeature Overview with Before/After Images The images below show a few before and after the plug-in comparison.

#Finale 2014.5 measure repeat symbol full#

The plug-in works both as a ' 1-click solution' with many intelligent algorithms that automatically set the best parameters as well as with a very flexible and versatile user dialog with more than 200 parameters in the Gold edition.Ī full feature list with references to the before/after images below is available at the bottom of this page. automatic rest splitting and merging according to the time signature automatic repeated measure numbering for percussion/drum staves improval of MusicXML imported files and old Finale files from the 90s (including automatic expression category assignment and alignemnt correction) automatic visual balancing and collision removal of staves and systems in score and extracted parts automatic alignment of expressions, articulations, hairpins, lyrics and many smart shapes -įeatures of 'Perfect Layout' for Finale® Perfect Layout includes more than 100 automated layout processes for Finale® like:.