On 7 Jun 2004 at 8:37, Christopher BJ Smith wrote: > At 6:14 AM -0400 6/07/04, dhbailey wrote: > > > >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. > > When I tried out Brian's part method yesterday, I was more than a > little surprised (why, I ask myself now) that when you invoke Special > Part Extraction that it DOESN'T use the page layout that you chose in > Page Layout for Parts (it still uses the Page Layout for Score). I > suppose that if we ever get linked parts, then we will have to have > different settings available for EVERY part separately (or optionally > linked.) > > The way I used to accomplish this (in regular Extract Parts) is to > extract all the parts that have the SAME page layout (most of the > parts), then change the Page Format for Parts (for piano, chorus, > harp, etc.) to what I want for the OTHER parts, and extract those. I > guess I can still do that, but it might be nice to be able to set it > and never worry about it again.
In extracting parts the normal way, isn't there a choice of what template to use? Oops, I guess not! The easiset way to implement this, without having linked templates, would be to allow you to designate the template for generating each part. You would then extract in groups that used the same layout (drawn from the same template). If special part extraction could record and retain this information for each part, then you would have to do it only once for each part in your score. Better yet would be if you could create templates that already had this pre-defined, so the string parts knew which template, and the piano part etc. Fundamentally, all that's needed here is the mechanism for storing the data about the base template for each part, and then a second mechanism for storing your alterations to the layouts inherited from those templates. -- 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
