And having the parts included in the "project" file would certainly simplify the sharing of Finale files! And with the option to save part as external file (working as it does now) people who want to publish to PDF files would be able to.
I can see having the parts included in the same project file with the score leading the way to a command many of us have wished for -- the ability to have a PRINT ALL command where we could issue a single command and go out for a cup of coffee and when we return find that the score and all parts have been printed (assuming they were all supposed to be on the same size paper). David W. Fenton wrote: > On 14 Jul 2002, at 8:23, Dennis Bathory-Kitsz wrote: > > >>The option to show stuff in parts >>is presently poorly implemented. I know each of these options starts to >>create file bloat, but every item in a score could have along with it >>information about whether it's to appear in a part. These would be >>available from context menus, dialog boxes and frame edits. >> > > I don't see any reason for file bloat, if you consider that a score and > parts actually encompasses the file space of both the score and the > parts. A single file with information about the score and the parts in it > should be substantially smaller than the corresponding set of files as it > is done in Finale today, simply because so much of the information has to > be repeated, duplicated, in the separate part files, whereas in a single > file, you'd need to store only the information about the parts that is > *different* from what is in the score. > > I don't see that concept as being particularly difficult to implement, as > it would simply be an additional data structure added to the end of the > existing file. While there is no doubt that some changes would have to be > made to the main score data structure as it exists, I don't think those > changes would necessarily need to be fundamental in order to get the > functionality necessary to have parts connected back to the score. > > And as I've said repeatedly, as long as you could still save out the part > into a separate file, the people who prefer it that way would still be > able to work the way they've always worked. > > -- David H. Bailey [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
