Choose Shape Designer > Bracket Style.The Expression Designer-Main dialog box appears. You could choose any category you like, but this bracket is unlike most other figures you would add as an expression, so we will add it to the Miscellaneous category. Click the Miscellaneous category on the left.The Expression Selection dialog box appears. Double-click where you would like to attach the bracket. They can be especially useful when you need to enclose a group of lyric verses. Finale considers such a bracket purely graphic, you can use the Expression tool to place it.
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Use the handles to make any independent manual adjustments to this bracket.Ī “floating” bracket is unattached to any particular staff it can appear anywhere on the page.
Then, choose Staff > Groups and Brackets > Remove to remove it. Select a handle on the staff you want to adjust.(When you do this, Finale automatically creates two new bracket definitions for the systems included in the former bracket's definition-one for systems before the deleted bracket, and one after). To do this, you simply need to delete the bracket on the system that requires alterations, and then define a new one accordingly, assigning it to the measures of that system. However, there may be situations where you need the bracket configuration to change from one staff system to another. If you don’t want a bracket to appear, make sure that Show Bracket If Group Only Contains One Staff is not selected in the Group Attributes dialog box. You can avoid showing a bracket on a group containing a single staff, such as a solo line. A positive number for either option moves the bracket’s end upward. To align the bracket’s ends evenly with the top and bottom lines of the group, enter a value of zero. The units are whatever you've selected under Edit > Measurement Units, and a negative number moves the bracket to the left.Įnter numbers into the Vertical Adjust (Top of Bracket) and Vertical Adjust (Bottom of Bracket) boxes for the distance to extend the upper and lower ends of the bracket in relation to the top of the top staff and the bottom of the bottom staff, respectively. In the Distance from the Left Edge of Staff box, enter the distance that Finale should place the bracket from the left edge of the staff. Specify the position of the bracket in relation to the group.Choose one of the Bracket Options to select the style you want to use for the group.Click a group handle, then choose Staff > Group and Bracket > Edit.If you haven’t yet created the group, do so now.However, if you want to place more than one bracket on a group, follow the instructions at To create additional (nested) brackets.
You can only define one bracket for each group you create.
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