When you place an articulation marking
onto a note, Finale automatically centers it and places it a precise distance
away from the notehead. Once the marking appears in the score, you’re
free to drag it into a new position.
To restore the original positions of the markings,
eliminating any hand-positioning you’ve done, drag-enclose the desired
articulations and press the BACKSPACE key (laptop users Fn-6).
The following procedure can be used to
move a specific marking into a new position, such as moving breath marks
a uniform distance to the right of the notes to which they’re attached.
- Click the Selection tool
and select the region
of music you want to affect. See Selecting
music for some region-selecting shortcuts.
- ChooseUtilities > Change> Articulation Assignments. The Change Articulation Assignments
dialog box appears.
- If you want Finale to reposition all articulations
in the selected region back to the default position, click OK.
- If you want Finale to reposition only a certain
articulation marking, click Position Selected Articulations; click Select,
and double-click the symbol you want.
You can also swap one marking for another
throughout the selected region: select Change All Articulations (or Selected
Articulations) to Articulation, and click Select to specify the replacement
symbol.
- You can also specify new positioning information
by entering numbers into the H: and V: text boxes. You’re adding distance
to either the usual or existing positions of the selected markings, depending
on your selection from the drop-down menu. The
units are whatever you’ve selected using Edit > Measurement Units.
For articulations designed to be placed On Notehead Side,
or On Stem Side, positive numbers move the symbols to the right (H:) and
away from the staff (V:); negative numbers move them left and in toward
the staff. For articulations designed to be placed Manually, Above Note
or Below Note, positive numbers move the symbols to the right (H:) and
upward (V:); negative numbers move them down and left. See Change
Articulation Assignments dialog box and Articulation
Designer dialog box for more detailed explanations of these options.
- Click OK (or press ENTER).
Finale neatly positions every articulation mark in the selected region,
according to your specifications.
