Christopher BJ Smith wrote:
I'm still not getting it. If the layout has to change, then why not re-extract the part? If you are using Finale's default layout, then you should be happy, as it is all done automatically. If you are in the habit of changing the default layout on extracted parts, then you won't be happy with how it looks after you have changed some passages, and you will have to re-do the layout anyway, so why not just re-extract the part? And how does Finale decide when to clear your layout changes, and when to keep them?I think it would be just for notes, not layout. Finale's default layout and happy in the same sentance? Not. I've never used the default layouts. Never.
Layout would probably NOT be linked, but NOTES would. Does that make sense? I can't count how many times I've changed something in a score and FORGOT to update it in a part. Re extracting the part would be way more time consuming. The placement of titles, etc, etc. I'd just like to have the note DATA updated throughout a piece. Each part's layout is different on the stuff I do.
Actually, I usually place things in the score so that I don't have to nudge them on the extracted parts, which looks really stupid on the score most often. Then after the parts are done, I go back and nudge the score, save it under a different name (Mytune print score or something like that) and print it. That way I only nudge an item once, on the score, rather than twenty times on the extracted parts.Hmm, I haven't had any problems like. I'm usually happy with the placement of dynamics and such. TGTools is a great thing to align items.
If you have only changed a few pitches, or added a few dynamics (as NOTE-attached expressions), chord symbols, or articulations, then you can update the parts pretty easily (ten minutes for a 20-staff score) with this procedure.
Open the revised score, click on the first staff's clef (let's say flute) to select the entire staff, command-C to copy.
Open the first flute part, lock the layout, select all, hit Delete (on the Mac, don't know the PC key to clear items.) Then hit command-V to paste all the notes, articulations, chord symbols, and note-attached expressions into the part.
Hit 4 to note-space. Update layout. Save it and/or print it. Repeat for the other instrument parts.
This will not work if you have changed keys, time signature, number of measures, page-attached text blocks, or staff-attached expressions. But then, aren't these the things that you don't want linked?
Key and time signature would be linked, as number of measures. I think kind of what http://www.noteheads.com/igor/igor.html Igor does. Where you can have separate layouts for parts, and tell the program what you want linked, but it will update major changes (IE: Keys, time signatures, notes, etc).
I know that it would save ME time, and others that I know. That's the one pain in the butt part with Finale, extracting parts.
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