On Wed, 17 Mar 2004 10:27:41 -0500, "Aaron Sherber" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > At 09:55 AM 3/17/2004, David Horne wrote: > >Apologies if this has been mentioned before, but if you do a lot of cross > >staff notation, it's worth having alternate articulations handy, defined > >as metatools, which take this into account. > > Yes. I don't like going that route unless I have *lots* of cross-staff > things, because it's a real pain to keep track of the articulations. My > point here is that despite the fact that there are other ways to > accomplish > the result, this particular way is broken.
Oh, I agree totally that it's broken. That said, I think this particular workaround is pretty painless. I've been using the same metatools for several years, so even with 30+ articulations it's pretty easy to navigate, I find. > > >2004? (I'm on 2003) If so, that would strike me as an immense oversight. > >BTW, how much better is the auto-cross staff function in 2004 than the > >one currently available in TGTools. > > I believe that the individual note cross-staff feature *is* TGTools -- > select a note and hit Alt-arrow, and the note gets moved, stem flipped, > etc. I think Finale is just using the functionality from the TGTools Lite > plugin they include. Ah- OK. > > >on. Can it handle auto crossing- e.g. every second note in the bottom > >staff, and so on? > > Full TGTools can do this, of course. I don't know about TGTools Lite, > because I've deleted it. I have full TGTools, so I've had another look. Yes, sorry, it does support that. I think that what confused me was that you still have to set the split point to include all the notes- I'd probably overlooked that. > > > Is feathered beaming supported for cross staff notation > >in 2004? > > Sorry, I don't know. I'd be interested to know. I've never really found an acceptable way around this up to Fin2003. David _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
