IWBNI there were an option to specify that the vertical position of a given articulation should be adjusted automatically in the case when the articulation is attached to a beamed note where the beam is sloped, to prevent the articulation from being positioned too close to the beam.

As it is now, when the Position setting on the Articulation Designer dialog box is set to On Stem Side, Above Note or Below Note, the articulation is positioned vertically relative to point that is at the intersection of the trailing edge of an up stem (or leading edge of a down stem) and the edge of the primary beam that is farthest from the notehead. The setting Default Vertical Position specifies the vertical distance from this point to the baseline of the articulation character or shape. Note: This will be the case, regardless of whether or not the checkbox Center Horizontally is selected.

The following figure shows a turn articulation that has been automatically positioned by using the settings: Position: Above Note, Default Vertical Position: 28 EVPUs, and Center Horizontally. (Note: The baseline of the turn character used here is at the vertical midpoint of the glyph for the character.).

The following figure shows the same articulation when it is attached to a beam that has a slope of one space. For some, the position of this articulation is too close to the beam. One can adjust such articulations manually or design another articulation to be used in the case when the turn is to be placed next to a beam that has a slope of one space.

The following figure shows the same articulation after it has been manually nudged up to avoid the beam and to make the distance from the beam to the turn glyph match that which occurs in the case when the beam is flat:

That is, in this case the articulation has been moved manually in a vertical direction so that the distances shown (in green) in the following figures are equal:

This could be implemented, by adding a text box called Minimum Distance from Glyph to Beam to the Positioning section of the Articulation Designer dialog box. If this control is set to 0 for a given articulation, the articulation would be positioned as in the current version of Finale. Otherwise, if this control is set to a positive number (e.g. 9 EVPUs), the number would indicate the minimum allowable Euclidean distance from a primary beam to the glyph of the articulation character or shape.

Note: For two points p1=(x1,y1) and p2=(x2,y2) in the xy-plane, the Euclidean distance D(p1,p2) equals the square root of the following sum: (x1-x2) squared plus (y1-y2) squared. The Euclidean distance between two sets S1 and S2 is the minimum of D(p1,p2) over all points p1 in the set S1 and p2 in the set S2.

Created: June 8, 2000
Last Updated: June 8, 2000
Version: Finale 2000b