On 6 Jun 2004 at 15:56, 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.
It's not specifically style sheets that ought to be implemented, but the concept behind them: the appearance of the final result should be indpendent of the underlying data represented in the final printout. Style and presentation should be separated as much as possible. For linked parts, this would really only apply to frames and higher. That is, you wouldn't really want to control things within a frame from a common style. So what is really being described here is layout flow -- how the frames get flowed into systems and pages for printing. Obviously, individual parts would need different spacing within frames, as well, and that would need to be stored, but it wouldn't be stored in the style sheet, just in the data about the particular part. Cascading templates implemented the way Word implements them would probably give the capabilities that CSS in HTML gives you. But seems to me that any linked parts implementation would have to have a source for the information about the default layout of pages/systems for score and parts, just as you today have a template for parts when you extract parts. But that's not really cascading style sheets -- that's just maintaining different default page layouts. -- David W. Fenton http://www.bway.net/~dfenton David Fenton Associates http://www.bway.net/~dfassoc _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
