I have in my basic template at least one of each expression that contains fiddly details (like the jazz font enclosures) so that I can copy it and edit it to create a new one with similar font and characteristics, but other than that, I have never organised my expressions as you have. I almost never need more than one or two tempo markings per file, for example, and they are so easy to clone, so there is little need to have more than one in my expression library.
I don't think you would like my expressions anyway, as many of them use manuscript-style fonts like JazzText.
IMHO, you may be better off re-creating your libraries from old files, as you suggested yourself. It should only take a short time, and the Sort option makes things much easier now than in older versions of Finale.
Christopher
At 1:18 PM -0500 5/24/04, Noel Stoutenburg wrote:
Friends,
Through a combination of bad luck and negligence, I am in a situation where I have "lost" all my previous libraries and templates. The quotes designate that I can get them back without undue difficulty, by opening the documents which contained them, and extracting the relevant items, and resaving the teased out information. However, I have decided before doing this, to take some time to consider how I have these things ordered.
I've about reached the point of deciding that the most effective way to arrange libraries is to have a basic library containing a core group of materials that get used all the time, and then divide the balance into two classes, "general" and "specific". The "general" category is meant to describe expressions and articulations that are broadly applicable, like tempo designations, while the specific category is meant for expressions and articulations which apply to a specific instrument, composer or style. So "tempo" is a general category; "violin" is a specific category.
But it seems appropriate to ask, how the several of you denizens of this e-list have these things arranged. Also, as I write this, it occurs to me to ask whether there might be some value in setting up a "library" exchange; I'll trade you one "organ" library for one "violin" and one "kazoo" library...
Finally, it occurs to me that it might be useful to have a "meta" library, (though I have yet to determine if this is a suitable use for the scripting language) where I could define a set of articulation and expression libraries to import, so that if I am editing a score, and decide to change a part scored for oboe, to one scored for viola, I could, by loading the "viola group", load two text expression libraries, three shape expression libraries, an articulation shape library, with a single command.
ns
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