Engraver Slurs – Improved in Finale 2009
Finale’s Engraver slurs, introduced with Finale 2002, revolutionized music notation software with their ability to automatically snap to avoid collisions – even after transpositions that cause stems to flip.

Now they're even better. For Finale 2009 we’ve fine-tuned engraver slurs to ensure that edits made at high view percentages always produce the same results when viewed at 100% and when printed – and that on-screen appearance is consistently representative of high-resolution output so there are no surprises at the printer.

Document Styles
Create the look you want with personal Document Styles

Choose from a wide variety of styles or create your own to instantly personalize the appearance of new documents. Simply select a Document Style on the first screen of the Set-up Wizard to get the visual results you want, and save time.

Documents Styles control:

• text and music fonts
• text inserts
• all libraries (including expressions, articulations, document settings, etc…)
• graphics (a company logo, for example)
• page size and orientation
• page layout
• measure numbering and much more…

Create Your Own
It’s easy to create your own Document Styles. Just copy a completed Finale file (including notes) into the Document Styles folder and its settings become the basis for a new Document Style. Finale automatically knows what items pertain to the style, and which, like notes, do not. The next time you visit the Set-up Wizard you’ll be able to select your new Document Style.

FinaleScript 2.0 – Improved in Finale 2009
Script with ease.

Introduced in Finale 2004, FinaleScript® is Finale’s exclusive, easy-to-use scripting language that saves time by allowing you to automate your tasks by using one of the dozens of scripts we provide – or easily creating your own. Finale performs your tasks with a simple mouse click. Mix several repeated actions into one. The possibilities are endless.

FinaleScript could save you hours of work. For example, let’s say you have several Finale files for voice and piano you want to use for Alto Sax. With FinaleScript you could create a script to automatically replace the staff name “Voice” with “Saxophone”, apply the appropriate Eb transposition, remove the lyrics and more.

New in Finale 2009
FinaleScript 2.0 is a major revision offering an entirely new, easier-to-use interface and the addition of several power features including dialog box item scripting. Additions include:

• User interface scripting: script any items in a Finale dialog box such as buttons, checkboxes, text boxes, popup menus (Mac) / dropdown lists (Windows) Emulate keystrokes and mouse clicks.
• Quick access to scripts through the FinaleScript menu and keyboard shortcuts. Combined with user interface scripting, these additions make FinaleScript 2.0 a potent replacement for third-party macro recorder programs.
• Easy to use script editor: including syntax coloring, contextual dictionary, and syntax checker.
• Organize your scripts hierarchically.

Engraver Tuplets
Take control of tuplets with Finale’s Engraver Tuplets.

Default positioning looks great, even when the tuplet begins with rests, and tuplets automatically reposition when notes are raised or lowered on the staff. Tuplet brackets avoid rests and staff lines. Brackets follow the angle of the stems when on stem side and follow the angle of notes when on the note side. Pickup measures now include improved tuplet compatibility.

It's automatic!

More tuplet position options:

• Center tuplet number metrically or linearly within tuplet group.
• Bracket can extend over full duration of notes or just notes themselves.
• Placement options for Beam/Stem side and Above/Below staff.
• Specify flat tuplet brackets.
• Brackets flip when dragged across staff midline.
• Display ratio in multiple forms and ratio + note duration.

Music Fonts
Pick the look of your musical symbols from a variety of distinctive notation fonts included with Finale.

Maestro Wide
Maestro
Engraver
Jazz

Create the look you want with Personal Document Styles. Customize the appearance of new documents by controlling text and music fonts, page layout, and more.

Textured Paper
Choose from over a dozen different paper textures and colors so your on-screen page is easy on the eyes and aesthetically pleasing when entering notes or editing.

No texture

Textured paper sample in Finale

Vertical Collision Remover
Easily adjust white space between staves, systems, and instrument groups.

Before	After

Spacing Controls
Take control of "before music" and "after music" space on a
measure-by-measure level.

• Specify space between clef and key, key and time, and clef and time.
• Additional"before music" space at beginning of staff system and for notes
  with accidentals.
• Specify minimum distance between grace notes in music spacing and retain manual grace note positioning after music spacing.

Grace Note Spacing
Do you work with multiple grace notes?

• You can specify the minimum distance between grace notes in Music Spacing Options.
• Manual grace note positioning can now be retained after music spacing.
• Improved user interface affecting grace notes and music spacing in Document Options.