Sometimes I don't know how to accomplish something in Finale, but I am not so quick to identify my shortcomings as faults in the program. In this case, Lon has described the aberrant behavior clearly, and it sure is an inconvenient change - and a "bug" in my book. There have been a few suggestions for working around this, and it can be done, but the workarounds (changing all expressions to Staff Expressions, using Patterson Mass Copy to remove Measure Eapressions) create their own set of problems. Once you understand the behavior as Lon has described it, there doesn't seem to me to be any better way to deal than to remove the duplicate Measure Expressions "by hand." There are not that many of them.
I hope this gets repaired soon.
Happy Labor Day.
Chuck
On Sep 5, 2004, at 11:05 PM, Lon Price wrote:
On Sep 5, 2004, at 6:48 PM, Darcy James Argue wrote:Chuck Israels
On 05 Sep 2004, at 09:42 PM, Lon Price wrote:
What about rehearsal letters that you only want on the top staff of your score, but you want to appear in each part? In FinMac 2005, those get pasted into every part as well. In other words, say I have rehearsal letter "A" set up to appear on the top staff at measure 9, and I have a two-bar phrase at letter A that I want to copy and paste into measures 11-12, 13-14 and 15-16 in an inner staff (not the top staff).
Choose "Copy Entry Items" instead of "Copy Everything."
And how come nobody's mentioned this before now?
Because this is the way it's supposed to work.
This is NOT working the way it's supposed to. Let me describe my actions:
Create a measure expression ("Moderately") that is set for a staff list, appearing only in the top staff in the score, and in each of the extracted parts. Enter notes, articulations, chords and a note expression (dynamic mark) in the same measure, but in a staff that appears lower in the score.
In Mass Edit, choose "Copy Entry Items", and check chords, articulations and note expressions in the Entry Items menu. Copy and paste that measure into another measure anywhere in the score, and when you extract the part, you get everything, including the measure expression. I say that is NOT the way it's supposed to work, and it never "worked" that way before FinMac 2005. And where in the User Manual does it say that this is the way it's supposed to work? As far as I can tell, there is never any mention of measure expressions being copied, unless you choose "Copy Measure Items" and then check "Measure Expressions" in the Measure Items menu. I think Chuck is right about this being a bug in FinMac 2005.
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