On Mar 8, 2005, at 9:01 AM, JD wrote:
on 3/7/05 10:16 PM, Darcy James Argue at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
So -- any ideas (1) what is causing these duplicate hairpins to occur, and (2) is there any reasonable way of getting rid of them? I'm not about to go through an existing document and try dragging each individual hairpin to see if there's an identical one underneath.
Darcy,
The first act of the score I'm working on had 1000s of duplicate smart
shapes, including hairpins. I deduced it back to simple copy and paste. If
you C/P, not the option-click method, Finale will leave the SS in the target
measure and add in any new ones coming from the source. I assembled about
10 Finale files into one score and did a ton of C/P in the process, using
the normal routine and Mass Mover. My feeling is that is does make the file
bloated, in my case, the final score came in at nearly 4MB, which is huge
for Finale.
Darcy,
On occasion I implode a passage, re-voice it, then explode it back to its original staves. If the articulations were already attached, then my imploded staff has five articulations on every note, showing shadows where I might have nudged one. The way I get around this is to set Mass Edit to copy only articulations, and copy from one of the original staves that only has one articulation to my imploded staff. Then I can safely explode and every exploded staff only has one accent, like they are supposed to.
The reason I mention this is you may have a similar procedure available for Smart Shapes. If you go through and delete duplicates from ONE staff, then clear the hairpins from all the others, you can copy them relatively painlessly from the clean staff you created. To delete hairpins easily, I drag one off a bit (this will be the one I keep) drag around the handles for the others to make sure I select ALL of them, hit delete, then drag my saved one back into position again.
The smart shapes duplicate every time you perform a drag and drop copy, or a command-c command-v copy and paste, unless you have specifically set the Mass Edit not to copy these items. This is the same effect that occurs with staff expressions, like rehearsal letters. They get duplicated all over the friggin' place. Fortunately, they are easier to deal with. When I drag one away and delete the others (as I described above) I only have to hit Clear to restore the default positioning of the one remaining expression. You don't have this option with hairpins.
Does anyone else have these issues with the new copy behaviour? I hate it passionately.
Christopher
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