The Document Options - Fonts dialog box appears, with buttons and pop-up menus for various elements of the file. Choose Document > Document Options > Fonts.If you want to change all elements of the music to a different font, see To change the Default Music Font of a document. With this technique, you can change the font for a single notational element of the music, such as the clefs or the notes themselves. SMuFL fonts should not require manual adjustments but, if you use a non-SMuFL font, you may have to fine-tune the positions of individual elements, such as the eighth-note flags select the element's corresponding category in the Document Options dialog box to make global adjustments to this element as needed. Choose the new font/style and click OK.

Choose Document > Set Default Music Font.

To do so, see Configuring MacSymbolFonts.txt. Finale refers to MacSymbolFonts.txt while re-encoding to ensure no font listed in MacSymbolFonts.txt is re-encoded. MacSymbolFonts.txt is a list of all Symbol Fonts. Finale detects files that were last saved across platform and must re-encode all non-symbol fonts. Some characters in non-Symbol Fonts (such as Times) are encoded differently on Windows than on Mac (for example, character #247 on Mac may be represented by #233 on Windows). It has exactly one encoding (character #247 always equals the same symbol regardless of platform).

Noteman says: If you intend to use a third-party music font (that is not SMuFL-compliant), you must add it to Finale's list of symbol fonts A Symbol font, with regards to Finale, is a font that is not re-encoded when a document is opened cross-platform. See To globally change a single musical element’s font and To change the chord font. Any new articulations added to the document will display using the selected font, but existing articulations will not be changed. If you choose not to use one of these fonts, you can substitute any other SMuFL music font, but you cannot change it to a non-SMuFL font (and vice versa). Finale's default documents use one of MakeMusic's SMuFL-compliant default fonts, Finale Maestro or Finale Broadway. The Default Music Font defines which font is used for notational elements like noteheads, rests, tablature, accidentals, key signatures, time signatures, and articulations in a document.

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