[EMAIL PROTECTED] / 04.12.17 / 3:02AM wrote:I change the noteheads with the special tools palette rather than use a staff style to do what you are trying to do
That's what I have been doing last 17 years :-)
Change notehead....get a cup of coffee waiting for the screen to redraw....proceed...:-)
You had more patience than I...I gave up and went back to my pen, paper and Copy Cop method of music copying! :-) (no access to an Ozalid machine in school)
Since changing notehead to slash and removing stem is the way I have been dong long years, it is still quicker for me at this moment.
A bit of an aside....I have a "Finale stuff" file that I can quickly call up with a Quickey shortcut. In that file I keep samples of things that take a bit of work to create. Harp swirly things, aleatoric shapes that I have had to make over the years, unusual tempo/metronome markings etc...and also a measure of slashes (one for bass clef and one for treble clef) that have already been created by hiding stems and changing noteheads. I can just cut and paste any of these things into whatever current document I have been working on and copy to other measures from there. Saves a little time anyway.
I still don't believe style should dismiss the contents. This simply doesn't make sense to me.
I understand what you are saying.
I think that it would also be handy to be able to be more specific about which layer any staff style was applied to the same way one can specify layers for slash, rhythmic, blank notation and one and two bar repeats through the alternate notation dialog box. This might help with some of the staff style conflicts that can happen by getting them out of the way of each other. I'm thinking specifically that it would be nice to be able to include a percussion map staff style in the alternate notation dialog box which could then allow a percussion map to be applied to only one layer.
Additionally, "stems up for percussion map" could be an option (check box) just as "stems up for rhythmic notation" currently is.
Christopher has posted before about the way he has his percussion maps set up....very smart. I would consider using percussion maps if I could apply them as a staff style to one layer only.
-K
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