Mark D Lew wrote:
On Jun 6, 2004, at 5:01 AM, dhbailey wrote:
Style sheets would be a fantastic addition to Finale!
I could be wrong, but my sense is that incorporating style sheets directly into Finale is too impractical to even consider as a feature request to MakeMusic.
Finale stores page data and layout data somewhere. You adjust the page settings, the layout definitions and everytime you open the file those definitions are the same as when you saved the program so it obviously has stored them somewhere.
Style sheets would require the gathering of that data into a single place (or it might be possible to simply gather pointers to the places where that data is already stored, requiring no change in current storage of that data) and proper organization, so that things like fonts and sizes, placements, alignments, etc. would then be easily changed. And it would mean the addition of a new data area where the same issues for extracted parts would be gathered. As part extraction occurs, there would be a link placed in the parts to the original file so that each time the part was opened it would get its layout data from the score file. If the score file were renamed or deleted, the part would open with its most recent layout as it was the last time the part was opened.
So it would still be possible to override things in each part if you desired to do so, and if a part were orphaned you would still be able to adjust everything, BUT you could make adjustments in the score to the layout of the parts (sort of like you can do now in Special Part Extraction, only that layout would be saved to be used again rather than being lost as it is now when you go back to looking at the whole score and readjust things from how you had them when you used SPE to look at or print a single part) and those adjustments would then be reflected in each extracted part when they were extracted AND each subsequent time you opened the extracted parts. Change it once in the score, and the copyright notice would then be changed in all 32 already-extracted parts as you opened them OR simply reprinted them with some new "print all the files in this folder" command without opening each file.
I don't think it would be so difficult to implement, but then I have no clue about it from a programming point of view, so maybe it's impossible.
But if it's possible in web-sites with html programming, it can't be that difficult to implement.
-- David H. Bailey [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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