On Thursday, July 03, 2003 1:46 AM, Alan Smith wrote: > The fun really starts with repeat endings when you want to adjust the > height of the various elements. "Counting the nudges", as > suggested by > Peter Taylor, is essential in order to get everything to line > up. Some > staves (e.g. guitar with chord symbols above) may need individual > height adjustments. A more sophisticated plug-in that could > handle all > this would save hours of work.
Actually... rather than a plug-in, I wish that *every* score element was movable by means of a dialog box with numerical values (as expressions and text blocks currently are). Articulations, repeat endings, lyrics, chord symbols, and I'm sure a few other types of elements could benefit from the improved accuracy and consistency in placement created by such a feature. This way you wouldn't even have to "count nudges," you would just have to make sure that the vertical placement values are the same. If you lost track of nudge-counting, it wouldn't matter; you would be able to view your progress in the dialog box. Accurate and consistent placement, I believe, is where the EVPU comes in handy (to contribute to a recent thread). Since Finale's core works in EVPUs and any other measurement is really a conversion from that unit, I think that it is much easier to deal with "63 EVPUs" in a dialog box than "0.21875 inches" or "0.55562 centimeters." ------------- Brad Beyenhof [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
