David,
Optimization in Finale allows to remove blank staves _and_ makes the vertical spacing of each system independent from the global setting. It has *all* to do with the vertical spacing.
You can optimize without removing empty staves.
Unless I am missing something here it is you who hasn't understood the concept of optimization in Finale. The meaning of the word in this particular context is pretty much besides the point.
But if anything to optimize means to make individual staves more optimal, and that could well mean increasing the space between staves.
Johannes
David W. Fenton wrote:
On 3 Mar 2005 at 17:28, Mark D Lew wrote:
It's just that I would have worded it to say that removal of empty staves is what needs to be separated from "optimization".
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.
So, I think you have a completely backwards conception of what "optimization" actually is -- optimization *is* removing blank staves, and the part that you use of it is something else entirely that has nothing to do with optimizing space on the page (though you might reduce spacing between staves in order to fit more systems on one page; but you could also *increase* spacing in order to avoid overlap of extreme elements, and that is the opposite of optimizing).
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