On 28.07.2004 23:50 Uhr, Giz Bowe wrote
> At 05:00 PM 7/28/04, you wrote: You mean you use invisible measures to indent a staff? That's the first time I have heard anyone doing this. Can you not use the layout tool to indent? Perhaps I am not understanding the situation completely.
Here's what I want to do: indent the staff where the coda occurs. I place the coda sign in the indent. A little unorthodox, and experienced readers wouldn't need this, but the horn players I work with in this soul/r&b band aren't experienced readers. I've tried using the layout tool to do this, but I've got to tweak each part individually -- indenting the score doesn't indent my extracted parts. Thus, using an invisible which will appear (so to speak!) in the extracted part. But doing that keeps the clef from appearing on the 1st visible measure in the staff.
I've experimented with using Special Part Extraction, and for me, it seems to be more time-consuming, so I'm using my familiar method until I have more time to experiment with SPE. One difficulty with SPE is I often have to make road-map changes (repeats, codas, signs, re-ordering choruses or verses, etc), and tweaking the SPE parts takes me more time. I haven't given up on it -- I need time where I can work on it without being under deadline.
> That's what I'm coming to understand. I must be the only one to need a clef > properly placed after a key sig with a measure that's not the first in the > staff.
I thought you wanted it before the key sig. I am getting confused.
Sorry 'bout that, chief -- I DO want it before the key sig -- I mis-wrote.
Thanks to everybody who had a suggestion, and I apologize to those who were flummoxed about what I was doing. Somebody suggested yet another invisible bar to contain the clef -- I'll try that one, but I'm not sure it wouldn't ultimately be easier to tweak the layout in each part. I could also let the staff go without a clef -- the guys probably wouldn't notice!
Regards,
Giz
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