IWBNI there were a accidental shape special tool that could be used to change the appearance of the accidental on a given note. As it is now, one may hide the actual accidental for a given note and attach an articulation that is an accidental.

This feature would be useful for changing a given accidental to an editorial accidental which might be indicated by an accidental that is enclosed in square brackets or an accidental that is smaller than normal.

The functionality of the accidental shape tool could be similar to that of the note shape tool. When the accidental shape tool is selected, a handle could appear next to each accidental. To change the
accidental on a given note, one could double-click the handle for the accidental and select a desired symbol from the Symbol Selection dialog box. Also, a context menu could be displayed when the handle of an accidental note is right clicked. This menu could contain the items Symbol Selection and Edit Font that would display the Symbol Selection and Font dialog boxes, respectively.

Created: April 5, 2000 (based on comments by Dennis Collins, Johannes Gebauer and Andrew Stiller)
Last Updated: April 5, 2000
Version: Finale 2000b