Finale no beaming over rests
I am working in a 12/8 time signature and whenever I insert an octave note, an octave rest, and another octave note, Finale automatically extends the beam from the first note to the last, passing over the rest.
I want to deselect this behaviour, keeping at the same time the default beaming of three octave notes together. So I don't think that changing the time signature would be the right way.
I'm using Finale 2014.5 and also, I know that I would break a beam by pressing the / key, but since I have an Italian keyboard, it doesn't work.
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I checked Document Options and none of the checkboxes seem to do what you are looking for.
Therefore, I think your best bet is to break the unwanted beams using the speedy entry tool. To do this, place the speedy entry cursor over the latter or of the two notes that you want to unbeam and use the key command for Break/Join Beams. In my case the key command is /. You can find the key command using the Speedy menu as seen below.
I agree that changing the time signature so that beams are never formed automatically is not the right way to do this. I think it would be more work to beam the groups of three than to break the groups of two.
As for the problem with an Italian keyboard, assuming macOS, you can use System Preferences -> Keyboard Shortcuts to override Finale's default key command.
I have tested this and verified that the keyboard command override works.
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