Christopher BJ Smith wrote:
At 7:50 PM -0400 6/04/04, David W. Fenton wrote:
On 4 Jun 2004 at 18:55, Christopher BJ Smith wrote:
I suppose this amounts to a different philosophy about what I want my notation program to do.
You seem to assume a number of things:
1. layout in the linked part would not be as fully adjustable as layout in an extracted part.
I didn't assume that at all (except in the case of Sibelius, where parts inherit score layout, and possibly in the case of Igor, where I read between the lines from the presentation on the website).
I just think that if you are going to have to re-jig almost every aspect of your part layout once you change something, why not just re-extract parts again?
Why do you think that? Say you change 8 measures of music, is that going to screw up the whole page format? no. But it would be a pain in the ass to update all the extracted parts, etc, etc. If they were linked together, boom, it's done.
Actually, we kind of have that feature already. I don't use it, and neither does anyone else I know, possibly because it IS implemented in a stupid fashion (or at least a not-very-useful fashion). In a score with the Staff tool selected, click on a clef to select the staff, then go to the Edit menu and check Special Part Extraction. In scroll view, nothing happens, you still see the whole score. In Page view, the staff is alone and extracted. No new file, all changes to the part are immediately reflected in the score and vice versa (just turn off Special Part Extraction or else go to Scroll View to see the whole score.) PRint as you like, change staves to go to another part. I don't see the use of this feature, for most of the reasons I have already stated.
Thats like letting Finale print the parts for you. I can't ever remember doing that and liking the results. It would be great to keep a score and the parts together in ONE file, and have separate layouts for each. Then you can change the music, but you have to go through and redo all the page layouts.
I dunno, previous experience? (Lyric Tool, Ossia Tool, Midi Tool, certain aspects of the Repeat Tool, to name a few.)
Lyric tool works well. Repeat Tool too. Haven't needed to dabble with the Ossia tool in eons.
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