On Wednesday, August 13, 2003, at 12:45 PM, Craig Parmerlee wrote:
At 02:26 PM 8/13/2003 -0500, Richard Huggins wrote:Maybe I'm not getting something, but ...
You mentioned that you have everything on separate staves at the moment--why
wouldn't you extract those into parts before combining them? If you did,
then you're only dealing with the implosion issue (making a more-handy
conductors score), not trying to figure out how to extract separate parts
from an already-imploded stave.
Yes, I guess I could do that. I prefer to have a one-way pipeline, where there is one score where I do all the composition/editing, and then I extract parts from there. Ideally my composition would all be done into the score as the conductor would see it, and then I issue a single extract command that will give me all my parts broken out. I'm prepared to do the necessary editing to produce the final individual parts. I'd rather not have to also do a major editing job to produce a consolidated score.
In addition, this more consolidated score would be useful during the compositional process because I'd see more useful staves on the screen at any time.
The way I do it is to use a consolidated score: all in one layer for homophonic sections, and separate layers when the two parts have different rhythms. Another thing: I *never* put more than two parts on the same staff. Trying to deal with three layers when there are only two directions stems can go is just more headache than it's worth. Every once in a while I have "1. div." on a flute part or something, but that's the only reason to ever put three lines of music on one staff at the same time (in my own estimation).
Usually I group the woodwinds (for example) like this:
Picc. Fl. 1&2 Ob. (possibly 1&2) Cl. 1 Cl. 2&3 B. Cl. Bsn. (possibly 1&2, but rarely) A.Sx. 1&2 T.Sx. Br.Sx.
Then I extract all parts, just as they exist in the Finale file (but not after creating a separate "parts score" on which I have tweaked fixed font sizes, staves showing measure numbers, etc). I use TGTools to separate the Fl. 1&2 part (and other multi-part staves), but I "leave original staff untouched." I proof the two parts to make sure they have separated properly, removing "a2," "1.," and the like as I check. Unfortunately, running TGTools' Smart Explosion removes all beam adjustments, so I run Patterson Beams on the three-staff part (1&2, 1, 2) and then extract parts 1 and 2 from that.
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