At 9:57 AM -0300 7/12/02, M. Perticone wrote: >hello list, > >i need to solve something closely related to this thread. > >i would put two parts in a single staff, say, flutes I/II. but some passages >are too way polyphonic and complex, so sharing the same staff would result >in a messy layout. i know i can write those parts in two different staves, >and at last, optimizing would hide the the non-used staff. but as you can >see, i would have to accomodate those parts in a single page, and a problem >with staves names remains, as the first staff will say flutes I - II, and >the other one, flute II. is there a better choice or procedure? >thanks in advance for any advice, > >regards, >marcelo
Two ways. 1) my preferred way. Staff style, where only the abbreviated name is changed to Fl. I and everything else is the same. Apply it to the top staff whenever the parts split to two staves. This is great for instrument changes, too, like flute to piccolo, etc. 2) the old way, for users of pre-staff styles versions of Finale You can edit the staff names of systems that have been optimised, on a system-by-system basis, without it changing the names of EVERY system. Only optimises systems can do this, as any editing normally changes EVERY system name. This can be a big drag if there are 57 examples to change. Thank goodness we have staff styles now (see method 1). _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
