On Mar 3, 2005, at 6:25 PM, David W. Fenton wrote:
The meaning of the word "optimization" would then be associated with something that is not remotely related to the concept the word represents.
You "optimize" in Finale in order to optimize the usage of space on the page, by eliminating blank staves, so you can fit more systems in fewer pages. This has *zilch* to do with vertical positioning of staves within systems.
In the loosest sense, anything that improves your document makes it more "optimal", but it's such a vague term that it's meaningless in Finale, except by association with what the function actually does. What the function actually does is make staves vertically adjustable within a system. It may or may not also remove blank staves from page view. As we've already noted, you can have an "optimized" system which does not have the blank staves removed.
So, I think you have a completely backwards conception of what "optimization" actually is --
Right, and I think the same of you. Like I said, our only real disagreement here is just semantics.
optimization *is* removing blank
staves, and the part that you use of it is something else entirely [...]
If "Optimization" is equivalent to removing blank staves, then how come "Remove Empty Staves" is an optional checkbox within the Optimization dialog box? So that you have the option of optimizing without optimizing?
mdl
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