David,
I can't advise you about the Tempo Tool (I never use it), but I can tell you I have seen all kinds of weirdness cropping up from old files that I try to re-use as templates. I suspect that it has to do with imperfections in the conversion routine for older files. I have noticed it much less on files from 2003 or later, but quite a bit on the earliest files I have, which are 3.2.
Part of the reason I don't see it much any more is that I re-create my template pretty much every time a new version of Finale comes out, starting from about 2002, because I want to avoid the corruption I've seen so many times (and also to take advantage of the new settings that are included in more recent versions' default files!) Plus the conversion routines might be better with more recent files, but I have no certain knowledge of that.
The file overwrite bug, for example, has only happened to me when I was editing a file that was started in a previous version. I get measures of slash notation (with nothing else in the measure, nothing hidden!) that space unevenly. I get staves that don't play back. I get swing playback that I am unable to turn off in any tool. I get staff styles that I can't erase. I get expressions (particularly repeat tool expressions) that bounce all over the place. And as for lyrics, well, the less said the better. So I only use old files when I have to.
Sorry I can't help more.
Christopher
On Apr 17, 2005, at 8:18 PM, David W. Fenton wrote:
Can anyone give me advice on exactly why tempo tool playback might not work in a body of files that were created from the same template (an old file, probably stemming all the way back to WinFin 2.01, converted to 3.52 then to 97 then to 2K3)? I've already imported standard WinFin2K3 document settings.
I've got other files that I *thought* were from the same template where my tempo tool changes are honored, and in comparing various settings between the files where it works and the files where it doesn't, I simply can't see one darned thing that is different.
Any ideas why it wouldn't work when I've inserted the necessary "play tempo tool changes" expression in the beginning of the piece?
[of course, the idea that you have to tell Finale to actually *use* data you've put in with one of its tools is frustrating enough. Yes, I understand that you do need the ability to turn it *off*, but seems to me the default should be *on*, without you needing to do anything. That puzzled me for years to the point that I just didn't use the tempo tool at all, but now that I know that I have to jump through a really stupid hoop in order to have it work, I *still* haven't had much luck. End of rant.]
-- David W. Fenton http://www.bway.net/~dfenton David Fenton Associates http://www.bway.net/~dfassoc
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