At 11:21 AM 07/17/02, Johannes Gebauer wrote: >There are still situations where libraries do a really good job: Imagine you >change something of your engraving style, eg font for certain symbols,
I believe you'll find that the Document Settings library includes your choices of *character* for any symbol, but the choice of *font* is saved only to a Default Fonts library. >line >thickness, slurs etc. Now you want to update some existing files with the >same changes: Save the documents options library and load it into your other >files. That's nice in theory, but in my experience I have found that every time I'm in a situation like that, there are several other document options that I *don't* want to change. Eg, in one file I make adjustments to the line thicknesses which I'd like to apply to other files, but I don't want to also change my tie options, piano bracket shape, and the default distance to the left of the first note in a bar. I've used plenty of document settings libraries over the years, but I have NEVER used one for a transfer like you describe where I didn't have to go back and restore certain settings to how they were originally. It's always a matter of counting up how many settings you want to copy and how many you want to leave alone, and figuring out which way would result in the least amount of time going back into the various menus to fix them. Another problem is that if you aren't the sort of user who will pay attention to what values are entered in every document setting (for better or worse, I *am* that sort of user, but I'm sure most others aren't...), then using a Document Settings library opens the door to unintended consequences. Today you might think, "Hey, the ties look really nice on this file; I think I'll copy those settings into my own template". But two months from now you'll be scratching your head wondering the flags on the 32nd notes look funny, or why there's too much space after the time signature. The problem is that using the Document Settings library is an all or nothing affair, and there's a huge collection of values included (not all of which Options-> Document Settings submenu). What we need is the ability to overwrite only those settings we ask for, while leaving all the others alone. mdl _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
