Colin Broom writes: > Also useful is the ability to set the page layout for score and > parts from the options menu.
It was possible before as well. The dialogs was just a bit more "hidden". > A note to anyone upgrading that I noticed Jari hadn't covered in his tips > for upgraders: If you intend to use a Maestro Font default file that you > have ready prepared from a previous version of Finale, be sure to > copy the staff styles as a library from the Fin2k3 into it, otherwise > you will miss some of the new preset (and inherently useful) staff > styles, such as stemless notes. There are a bunch of other stuff in the Maestro default file as well, such as some new Custom-Line Smart Shapes (although mostly for TAB). You can use Settings Transfer (use the latest Forza! 0.16 beta) to get them into other documents. > The addition of the tuplet options to the document options box is a welcome > addition as are the new options within this box regarding bracket thickness > and horizontal offset, though I would have liked to have seen a vertical > offset option for the numbers as well. These are not new options, just reorganized and moved from other dialogs. It's a nice "side-effect" of the new options interface that settings actually can be _found_ now... > Another > slight drawback is that the behaviour of these new options is different from > the pre-existing ones in this box, in that any change made in them globally > affects all the tuplets in the document immediately as soon as apply or OK > is hit, whereas changes to the bracket or ratio, etc. do not affect > pre-existing tuplets. This seems somewhat inconsistent to me. If you take into account that these "new" settings just have been moved from previous document setting dialogs, it's not that surprising. However, I agree that the user interface could do a better job in explaining which settings on that page are global and which are not (similar to what's already happening on the "Fonts" page). > Other than that, there doesn't seem to be an awful lot changed that > I can see, though there may be some "under the hood" stuff that > I'm not aware of. Feel free to test the "Settings Transfer" in the Forza! beta, that kind of stuff simply wasn't possible to do with plug-ins in earlier Finale versions. Best regards, Jari Williamsson ICQ #: 78036563 _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
