on 3/5/03 3:15 PM, Matthew Hindson Fastmail Account at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>> Subject: [Finale] Finale Wishes etc. >> >> staff optimizations were toast. For example, 46 measures from the > beginning >> were cut completely so an excerpt could be created for rehearsal >> preparations. This meant all the staff optimization was lost since what > was >> system 12, was now system 1. > > Forgive me if I'm wrong, but I don't think I am. If you go into the Page > Layout thing and select the system, press delete and the following > optimizations will still be correct. You can only wipe out entire systems > this way, but it sure beats the alternative. Hmm. Believe it or not, I've never tried this route for cuts. I've always just deleted the measure since it was easier to apply directives from the client. I intend to go back in and screw around with this approach tomorrow AM. Thanks for the tip. >> Also, it would be quite useful to be able to apply Staff System Spacing to >> only selected staves in any system. As it stands now, Finale will apply > the >> variables from the Respace Staves dialog box to the entire staff system >> selected. I found myself using the percentage variable over and over, but >> it always applied it the all the staves in the current system(s). I would >> like to be able to select the bottom handle of certain staves, and have >> Finale apply the spacing to only those selected staves. > > I agree with this. It's very annoying to have to re-drag everything when > you only wanted some certain systems re-spaced. I _really_ hope that you've > also discovered the Staff Manager in TGTools. For anything to do with > moving around staves and optimizing etc., it's unbelievably great. > >> Another issue Išve been rankling about for years is the Text Expression >> dialog box. There is no real way to sort things other than the move up > and >> down buttons, which are absurd for sorting. In each of these files I have >> hundreds of various text and shape expressions, and sometimes finding one >> without a metatool assigned is a total exercise in frustration. Plus, the >> dialog box itself is not resizable. Almost all Mac dialog boxes can be >> resized now. Can we address that issue as well? > > Agreed. On the Windows side of things they fit much more into both the Text > Expression and Articulation selection dialog boxes. > > You should use the sort expressions feature of TGTools which can sort > according to name, font, font style, font size etc. Very handy. Just make > sure that you use the latest version of TGTools and make sure that you > update layout before applying it. I had one nasty situation a couple of > years ago when it re-assigned different expressions throughout the entire > piece. Tobias fixed this bug quick-smart, though. Robert Patterson gave me some most-appreciated directives towards Tobias' plug-ins as well as his own. I've downloaded the latest versions and will be knee-deep in assessment this coming weekend. From what I've read in the docs from both sets, a lot of my wishes could be answered. Thanks again for your input, and Robert's. L8R JD *************************** J.D. Thomas ThomaStudios West Linn OR http://www.thomastudios.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] *************************** A bus station is where a bus stops. A train station is where a train stops. On my desk, I have a work station. _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
