Christopher wrote: > Brian, > > I'm replying to the list because I think there are others who this > might interest. > > I tried out your method just now on a 5-horn and rhtyhm section Latin > chart, and it worked great! It took me a couple of tries to get a > couple of the unfamiliar extra steps right (turn off staff names, > create a new instrument name text block, remember to respace > (aargh!), and if I change the size of a bar manually, the next staff > doesn't inherit that, nor does it inherit where I manually broke a > multi-measure rest.) I also figured out quickly that I had to TURN > OFF SPE, then select a new staff, then turn SPE back on again. > Selecting the new staff alone wan't enough. > > Any other tips?
Yes: 1) Use the Global Staff Attributes plug-in to prepare your score for parts (turn off staff & group names, turn on time signatures and measure numbers) before you do the layout on the first part. 2) If you're working with mult-part staves that need to be exploded, use TGTools Smart Explosion of Multi-Part Staves... plug-in. 3) Set barlines and measure expressions in your score to break multimeasure rests where you want them. 4) Program 3 or 4 QuicKey macros to set the size of multimeasure rests to various lengths and use them on each part (every time you redo SPE it resets all multimeasure rests to the same default length defined in the window you click through). 5) Use text inserts for a field from File Info for instrument name so you only have to change it once in File Info. You can also use File Info field text inserts for other info in a template, such as Title, Cue# and Composer. 6) If you're going to be doing a lot of charts the same way, save Document Options and Page Format libraries from your first part and load them into subsequent charts. If I think of anything else, I'll let you know. Brian _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
