Resize Noteheads
Plug-in
How to get there
- Choose the Selection tool
and select the
region of the document containing notes you want to resize.
- Choose Plug-ins > Note, Beam, and Rest Editing >
Resize Noteheads.
What it does
This plug-in can resize specified voices
of a multi-voice staff. This plug-in works for all visible layers.
- Standard
Noteheads · All Special Noteheads · One Custom Notehead; Select.
Choose Standard noteheads to resize only standard noteheads (
and
). Choose All Special Noteheads to resize all noteheads
changed with the Note Shape Special Tool (See Note Shapes). Choose One Custom
Notehead and click Select to open the Symbol Selection dialog box
where you can choose the notehead character you would like to resize (in
the default music font specified under the Document menu).
Alternative noteheads resulting from a Staff
Style are not recognized by the Resize Noteheads Plug-in.
- Resize
Noteheads: From Top of Chord · From Bottom of Chord. Here, specify
the direction Finale should count each stack of notes.
- Enter
the numbers of the noteheads to be resized, separated by commas or hyphens.
Here, specify the noteheads to be resized. Your entries here depend on
the setting above. For example, if the From Top of Chord radio button
is selected and you type “1,2” here, the top two notes in all chords of
the selected region will resize.
- Resize
Noteheads to ___%. This text box specifies how much you want to
resize the specified noteheads expressed as a percentage of the original
full size.
- OK
· Cancel. Click OK (or press ENTER) to proceed with, or Cancel to
abort, the notehead resize.
