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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72" style='word-wrap:break-word'><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>I’ve been trying to adjust the right end-point of hairpins. In the source Finale material I am working with, these routinely collide with or cross the group barlines in conductor scores, but I want them to stop a bit before the barline (this issue gets even more exaggerated if the file is brought into another environment via MusicXML). <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>From Google searches it seems like this is a known issue for Finale users, with all sorts of manual and semi-automated solutions. Indeed if I create a totally vanilla Finale document without using any special settings, that is exactly the behavior that I get when placing a slur. If you create a hairpin that spans a measure, it snaps to end exactly on the group barline.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>There is a sample script on the JW Lua website that loads FCSmartshape objects, filters for hairpins, and changes the hairpin opening size by changing the FCSmartShapeCtrlPointAdjust setting for ControlPoint1OffsetY.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>So far, so good. But when I try to change the “X” horizontal settings, nothing happens. I am beginning to think that these “control point adjust” settings have nothing to do with what I am trying to achieve, namely changing the X-offset (relative to the beat, or relative to the measure) of the SmartShape object.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Martin<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>