IWBNI there were an option to specify that measures displayed in scroll view should be wrapped in the same way that words may be wrapped in a word processor.

This feature would be useful in the case when a large monitor is used with a high resolution selected and the score contains a small number of staves or a staff set is being displayed that contains a small number of staves. As it is now, much of the available display area is unused when scroll view is used in such cases.

This could be implemented by adding a check menu item called Measure Wrap to the View menu. This menu item would be enabled in the case when the current view type is scroll view. If this option is not selected, measures would be displayed in scroll view as in the current version of Finale. Otherwise, measures would be wrapped. Specifically, in the case when the right barline of a given measure would appear to the right of the right edge of the document window, the measure would be automatically wrapped to the next line of measures in the same way that words are wrapped in a word processor. One could enter a measure number in the Measure text box at the bottom of the document window to specify the top left measure to be displayed. Or one could scroll vertically through all measures by using the vertical scroll bar, Page Up and Page Down keys, or the hand grabber tool.

When the Measure Wrap option is selected, the width of measures would not be altered. As a result, the right barlines of the last measures in each line would not be vertically aligned. That is, in word-processing terms, the right edge would be ragged rather than right justified.

Also, a text box called Line Spacing in Wrapped Scroll View could be added to the Other Program Options dialog box. With this control one could specify the vertical space between "lines" of measures in the case when measures are wrapped in scroll view.

Created: June 14, 2000 (based on comments by Robert Patterson)
Last Updated: June 14, 2000
Version: Finale 2000b