Listsibs: Perhaps it may be useful for some if I share the techniques by which I have decided to manage my FIN libraries:
First, I have decided to create all library items in the earliest version of Finale that I own. I can always, and easily import them forward, importing them backwards, if possible, is not nearly as simple. Second, I decided to break the libraries up into smaller bits: some general, like "dynamics", and "tempi", and some specific, "Organ", "Strings", and "percussion". Third, I have decided that any new library item likely to be used in more than one composition will be added to the appropriate library by opening an empty document (or a document without libraries), creating the elements, and saving them as a "micro-library", and exiting the document. The "micro-library" thus created will be loaded into the current document, and periodically, all micro-libraries will be merged into the appropriate larger "master-libraries". The only articulations that will reside in a specific document are those will most likely be used only in that document, of which the best exemplar that comes to mind is the stems of note trees. Any other suggestions you'd make in this regard? ns _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
