On 27 Jun 2003 at 8:26, Brad Beyenhof wrote: > On Friday, June 27, 2003, at 12:28 AM, Jari Williamsson wrote: > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > > >> I hope someone from Coda is reading this... > > > > If you want Coda/MakeMusic to listen to you, send the wishes to them! > > > >> Painfully redoing 10 pages of score after switching the default to > >> stemside... > > > > Why not just change the articulation definition? > > I'm with Jari... if I were you, I'd just duplicate the existing > articulation and change the definition to say "stem side" instead of > "note side." Then just re-enter the articulations you want to > change... no dragging required.
This is a case where it would be really wonderful if Finale used modern programming techniques and made articulations and the like object-oriented, so that you could base a new articulation on the old one and have it inherit changes to the base articulation, but allow you to override individual properties. I won't mention the dreaded *bj*ct-*r**nt*d term, since that raises hackles, but I'd use the example of Microsoft Word styles, which cascade. One style can be based on another and will inherit all the properties of the parent style until it's overridden. For example, the Normal style might be Times 12pt, and the Header1 style is based on the Normal style and be 36pt Bold. If you change the Normal style to Garamond, the Header1 inherits that change. If articulations and expressions worked that way, it would make them *much* easier to manage. Of course, I'd also like to see cascading templates, too, at least one level deep, where a document could retain the connection to its original template so that you could make changes in the template and have them cascade through to the documents based on that template. Word allows this and it works great. It would be particularly useful for multi-movement works where you have a layout for multiple files. -- David W. Fenton http://www.bway.net/~dfenton David Fenton Associates http://www.bway.net/~dfassoc _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
