On Apr 29, 2004, at 6:18 AM, Dennis Bathory-Kitsz wrote:
I had forgotten how nasty split points could be. They're probably not used
often, but an improved tool with a simple auto-splitting sliding bar
feature (and full-time visual cue) would be great. It might also solve
those staggered measure issues... aw, heck, but that's for another day. :)
I think the part I hated most was that once the split point it entered, the beat chart doesn't appear properly. I once had a song where I was obliged to resort to a split point. It was a tiny bit too long for one page, and way too short for two, but the split point gave me what I needed to squeeze it onto one page.
However, because the page was so crowded, it was necessary to make tiny spacing adjustments to the cramped measures for optimal look. I do this by tweaking the beat chart. In a normal measure it's slightly tedious but not a big deal. In the split measure it was awful, because what I need to eyeball is the half-measure on either side of the split point, but Finale only gives me the beat chart for the entire measure, jammed in tight. As a result I'm tweaking blind and I have to re-update the layout after every adjustment to see what I got. Yuck.
mdl
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