Christopher BJ Smith wrote:
But if you find yourself doing this a LOT, wouldn't you think that there ought to be an easier way to do it? And yes, people do edit other things, but if this linking was done right it would be slick.
Once again, my little copying routine that I noted is so easy, that I can hardly imagine justifying the kind of rewriting it would take to accomplish linking ONLY notes in Finale. And doesn't anyone edit anything else?
Hmm, it looks like kind of the same case as with Sibelius, that you are more or less stuck with the default placements, unless you want your score inheriting the adjustments you make to your parts.
I suppose this amounts to a different philosophy about what I want my notation program to do. For example, I HATE the way Microsoft Word makes assumptions about what I want done with my typing, like "correcting" my spelling without telling me, or putting bullets or numbers when I hit carriage return. And I STILL haven't worked out the formatting! I use AppleWorks instead, because it does what I tell it to. It would probably bug me to have Finale getting too big for its britches, writing changes to files that I didn't tell it to.
No, I'm not saying for Finale to start TELLING you what to do. I hate that as well, but it would make a lot of sense to be able to have a score with related parts that are linked at a user defined degree. Think of it like a relational database. You might think an Excel datasheet works for everything, and when someone proposes to "relationalize" your data, you might think "what's the point", but in the bigger picture it makes a whole lot more sense, and I think the next step in Finale would be to do this.
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