Selective Mirror dialog box
How to get there
After creating a mirror with the Mirror tool:
-
Choose Window > Advanced Tools.
Click the Mirror tool
.
- SHIFT+click the mirror measure (which displays the Mirror icon).
- Click Selective Mirror ID.
When creating a composite mirror:
-
Choose Window > Advanced Tools.
Click the Mirror tool .
- Click an empty measure; the Tilting Mirror
dialog box appears.
- Create a composite mirror in the usual way, ending
by clicking Yes.
- Click Selective Mirror ID.
What it does
An intelligent copy of a full measure is
called a mirror; a measure composed of selected notes from several different
measures is called a composite mirror. There may be times, however, when
you want to display only selected notes from a mirror or composite mirror.
For example, you might want a certain measure to display only a single
monophonic musical line distilled from the chordal right-hand piano part
from which it was mirrored.
For this purpose, Finale offers you the
ability to choose individual notes from a mirror or composite mirror;
the result is a selective mirror.
In this graphic window, you can click the
handles of the notes you want to include in the selective mirror. You
can pick individual notes out of a chord or, by drag-enclosing several
handles, you can select groups of notes within chords. Finale will automatically
provide rests to replace any notes you don’t select.
Click Prev and Next to scroll through other
mirror measures. When you’re finished, click OK; Finale automatically
enters the number of the selective mirror in the text box.
- ID:.
This indicator identifies the selective mirror by number. Finale
assigns each new selective mirror a sequential ID number. If the number
in the Selective Mirror ID text box was 0, Finale knows you’re creating
a new selective mirror, and this indicator says NEW. If you entered a
number in the Selective Mirror ID text box, Finale displays the selective
mirror assigned to that number, so that you can edit it.
- OK
• Cancel. When you’ve chosen all the notes you want included in
your selective mirror by clicking their handles, click OK. You return
to the Mirror Attributes dialog box, where Finale places an X in the Selective
Mirror check box and displays the new selective mirror’s number in the
text box. Click Cancel to return to the previous dialog box without creating
(or editing) a selective mirror.
- Prev
• Next. If you’ve created more than one selective mirror, click
Prev and Next to scroll through them.
See also:
Mirror
Tool
