It’s a standard song that begins with an eighth note pickup. The key signature in the graphic is G major (one sharp).
I want to DELETE the last eighth note of this measure, that Ab in the voice. Because the D.C. is to a pickup, there are no odd-length measures.
I would like a double bar (||) to follow the Bb, and I’d like the key change to appear after the double bar. I want the e of the D.C. al Fine to be over the double bar.
(Isn’t that standard style? Or maybe some people do it differently?)
Notice that there’s a tick mark for a bar line at the end. That should disappear, too.
I can’t quite figure this out even though I’ve seen a YouTube video that should explain it, but I’m not getting something.
This is close but not quite. The essential step, to delete the last eighth is fine. However, this also deletes the double bar, which I would like to appear before the key signature — if that’s the current accepted style.
I haven’t checked Gould, and when I did music engraving for a living, there wasn’t even an internet yet! (Not for ordinary citizens anyhow.) So my knowledge is likely stale on some things.
Also, the little tick mark is still there. I know there’s a way to vary a property on that, and I’ve done it before so that it remains there but is reduced to size 0, but I can’t find how to do that.
It’s otherwise “good enough” as is. This isn’t for publication.
Sorry, I’m still having a problem, though I have a theory why.
@Derrek the first couple of steps you describe are the same as what @dan_kreider said. All is well to that point.
It took me a while to realize that when you said to put the caret in front of the Ab, you really mean on the Ab because the caret appears to the left for purposes of visibility.
It’s not clear to me what all the following music text in your example demonstrates. Did I make it clear that (1) this is the very last item in the flow and that (2) there is already a barline after the key signature? In this case it’s a single tick, and I’d like it to disappear and put a double bar before the key change. Also note that where the D.C. al Fine aligns … over that barline.
This is not important — just a little thing I tossed off for my own benefit. But it’s also not technically correct, so I spent some time unsuccessfully making it work when except for one other trivial detail it’s done.
Thank you @Derrek for an actual working example with built-in instructions!
There’s good news and bad news. The good news is that your instructions work as shown. The bad news is that I’ve already gotten it to the point that I showed in my previous post (dated yesterday, April 3, at 6:38 PM) and to follow what you said, I need to try and back out what I did to get it to that point. It might be worth it.
I’m not sure how to do that, but I can certainly fiddle with it. I think one way to do it is to insert the measure as it originally existed before and then delete what follows. It’s just a few notes, no great chore.
I’ve spent far more time on this trivial detail than I expected to. I’m considering it a learning experience. (Assuming I actually learn something.)
Meanwhile, I’m considering also extending it with a third ending so I can add a sort of coda. In which that D.C. al Fine would come out and say something else. The original lead sheet I found is a little weird in having a 7-measure first ending, then the second ending goes directly to the bridge before going back to the verse.
Editing of posted replies with pencil noted. Somehow I never noticed. I’ve been on forums where whatever you sent out was engraved in stone.
