On 17 Mar 2004 at 9:35, Christopher BJ Smith wrote: > At 7:51 PM -0500 3/16/04, David W. Fenton wrote: > > > >Why should blank notation be used in spacing? > > So that chord symbols attached to blank items can be taken into > account for spacing. So that hidden items could add extra space > without appearing, to make room for things that you need to add as > graphics or text. . .
Yes, but in defining a staff style, you get to choose whether or not those things are visible or not. If they are visible, yes, they should be used for spacing. If they aren't, they shouldn't be. D'oh. > . . .But I agree that your situation seems curious. Am I the only person who prepares files for playback in this fashion? I'm pretty sure I got this technique from recommendations made by members of this list. > >Why is it that it didn't used to be and now it is? > > It seems to me that you should be able to specify whether you want > blank notation taken into account for spacing purposes by editing the > Layer Options>uncheck Affect Music Spacing. This assumes that you > always use the same layer for hidden notation. Yes, but that will only work if the only thing I have in that layer is hidden notation. I'm using layer one for the playback text, and layer 4 for the printed text where there is a departure between the two. If I were to switch and use layer 1 for the printed text and layer 4 (or any other layer) for the printed text, I'd then have to set the key velocities of the layer 1 measures to 0, which is a damned pain in the ass, as I've found from working with situations where I had 0-velocity notes before. Of course, it's not as bad as dealing with manually spacing dozens of measures in dozens of pieces. I guess with layer 4 not affecting spacing I could use blank notation applied to layer 4 to hide it, so I wouldn't have to worry about that. Of course, the easiest thing for me to do today is to just hide all the notes in my current layer 1 (regardless of whether or not I remove the blank notation). > Certain things changed in more recent versions, especially staff style > definitions. But I have often had things operate differently in an > older, imported file, and ended up copying all the music over to MY > new template, where all my metatools and staff styles and chord > symbols were available to me in the way that I am used to. This may > help you. Or not. This shows how screwed up the use of templates is. > Another option, if you are only creating PDFs, then you can safely > delete the hidden layers for printing purposes. This means two version > of the same file: one for playback, one for printing, but it is at > least a workaround. Subject to great error, and a non-permanent change. I don't know what I'll do. If there was a plug-in to hide notes, I'd use that on my blank notation, and that would fix it. The other option is to move the playback layer to another layer and turn off spacing for that layer, but that will only work in pieces where I've not used up all the available layers (which I mostly haven't, because I'm no big fan of layers for multiple voices). -- David W. Fenton http://www.bway.net/~dfenton David Fenton Associates http://www.bway.net/~dfassoc _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
