I don't quite see how MassCopy can help me position all those "f" and "a tempo" indications?
Once you have positioned one, Mass Copy can replicate it as much as you want both horizontally and vertically. Unlike Finale's Mass Edit tool, Mass Copy preserves the vertical position of note-attached expressions, irrespective of the relative vertical position of the source and target notes.
In all fairness, I should add that Mass Copy *in conjunction* with TGTools Align/Move mitigates expression entry. I work very quickly with these tools because I have kbd shortcuts for all of them. If I have a series of expressions and hairpins, I only fuss with the vertical position of one of them. The rest I align using Align/Move. The whole sequence can then be copied anywhere with Mass Copy--and to as many staves at once as can be selected at once. If the target has collisions, Align/Move is very fast for fixing that as well, using its nudge keys.
It is admittedly not as convenient as Fin04's automatic positioning, but it isn't particularly painful to me, either. Certainly not as painful as living w/o screen rotation, or slogging thru Fin04's turtle-like screen redraws in OS9.
Mixing font effects in one expression is a very useful feature. It can be accomplished in Fin03 fairly easily using shape expressions, although admittedly not quite as easily as in Fin04. However, you only have to define such an expression one time.
-- Robert Patterson
http://RobertGPatterson.com
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