Jerry
David W. Fenton wrote:
On 16 Mar 2004 at 14:10, gj.berg wrote:David W. Fenton wrote:I just upgraded an older file (I think it began life as 3.52, was converted to WinFin97, now into WinFin2K3), and I'm having fits with the spacing for any measure with blank notation in layer 1 and notes in layer 4 (that's how I implement ornaments, as blank notation in layer 1, with the printed music in layer 4, which has no playback). I've done this many times, but for whatever reason, it's taking the hidden notation into account in spacing. I assume that the settings I need should be in DOCUMENT OPTIONS under LAYERS and MUSIC SPACING, but I can't seem to get any combination that spaces music based on all visible layers only (in this particular case, I have no instances of two visible layers at a time in any one measure). I've gone through and space things manually in all the measures where this applies, but this is a *real* pain in the ass. What am I doing wrong?One suggestion is turn on active layer only - go to 4 then do spacingExcept that doesn't work, unless layer 4 has the most active note values. The point is that I need to space based on the most complicated notation, whichever part it's in and whichever layer, and that's the way Finale is *supposed* to work (and always has worked before, right?), but, other than switching layers (which screws up playback), there's no way for me to do it. Well, no, I see that doesn't work, either. I just don't get it. The other thing I don't understand is that I don't have the full staff styles list. Is this something that is *template-based*? **BOGGLE** How stupid can that be? It means I'm lacking tons of useful features because the file was created under a tempo that predates the addition of the staff styles feature, I'm guessing. I suspect that this puts me on the right track as to the source of the problem -- it's something template-based that is causing the problem. Have I not already said about a bazillion times that Finale's template implementation is braindead? It may be have been adequate in the late 80s, but it is completely bollixed up for modern computing.
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