Glad to be of help. :-) Incidentally, there was some discussion a few years ago about Finale programmers seriously considering getting rid of Special Part Extraction all together. I wrote them a rather impassioned email that hopefully helped to keep it around.
On the subject of linking score & parts, I think that SPE would be the best way for a future version of Finale to do this (by storing entries along with multiple page layouts, spacings, text blocks and measure item placements in one file). This would also be backwards-compatible for older files. What do you think? Brian > From: Christopher BJ Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Mon, 07 Jun 2004 23:01:05 -0400 > To: Brian Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Finale Mailing List > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: Special Part Extraction > > At 7:28 PM -0700 6/07/04, Brian Williams wrote: >> Christopher wrote: >> >>> 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 > > > Ooh, this is pure gold! I did two more today, and I'm getting better > at it. These new tips should help quite a bit. > > Hey, man, you've changed my life! Not bad for a total stranger. > > Christopher > > _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
