On Wed, 02 Feb 2005 12:09:11 -0500, Christopher Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Wednesday, February 2, 2005, at 11:50 AM, Jari Williamsson wrote: > > > Christopher Smith wrote: > > > >> It IS rather weird behaviour, just the same. > > > > No, it isn't. It's all perfectly logical. > > Just to be clear, this is what I find weird: > > To turn on normal optimisation in a piano group, you HAVE to be in > scroll view if you have previously attempted to optimise. > > If you have NOT previously attempted optimisation, or if you have > turned OFF the optimisation, you DON'T have to be in scroll view to > turn on normal optimisation, as you CAN do it in page view. > > That doesn't seem weird to you? Or at least counter-intuitive?
No. When you optimize the piece, every Page View system now has its own individual Group and Staff Spacing settings. You can change Group settings one by one in Page View, but in order to affect the piece as a whole you have to go into Scroll View (which is not broken up by systems into discrete chunks. This allows you to change group attributes for each system when/if there are different combinations of instruments in the group, or (for instance) if a staff breaks into two for a certain section to accomodate a separate solo part. > Odder to me is that the "optimise normally" command in the Edit Group > Attributes window APPEARS to work normally when you select it, but then > when you go back to to check it, it has magically changed back to > "optimise only when both staves are empty" without notifying you. It > seems to me that if they don't want this feature to work when you have > optimised and are in page view, then they should at least grey it out, > or tell you that this won't work except in scroll view (which I still > don't understand.) It is changed only for the system you originally clicked on when modifying the check-box. All other Page View systems remain the same, and changing these attributes in an optimized Page View system has no effect on the underlying Scroll View settings. In general, I tend to think of Scroll View as the repository of "global" settings, which can be modified piece by piece in Page View, the section for "layout" tweaking. -- Brad Beyenhof [EMAIL PROTECTED] my blog: http://augmentedfourth.blogspot.com FinaleIRC (come chat!): http://finaleirc.com _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
