On 26 Apr 2005 at 14:40, Darcy James Argue wrote: > I hate to point out the obvious, but perhaps an email to Mr. Patterson > is in order?
He very graciously responded to my post with a key to re-activate the trial period. > The new copying behavior introduced in Fin2k5 has unintended > consequences for copying within the *same* document, or for copying > into a template where you *don't* want the measure expressions to > carry over from the clip file (or clipboard), but it actually works > quite well for its intended purpose, which is making it easier to > combine multiple Finale files into a single file. Well, I think there is actually a case where measure expressions *do* copy with clip files, and that's if you INSERT instead of REPLACE. I say this because when I created the violin part, all the tempo markings (one per movement) were brought into the part. That means that the tempo mark for the second and third movements, which were both measure expressions, were copied in the clip file. However, when I did the viola and cello parts, I kept all the measures (in order to retain the layout) and just cleared their content, so in that case, I REPLACED the content, and in that case, the measure expressions *did not* copy. Fortunately, I had only the two, so I just re-inserted them by hand. The clefs problem is vastly more severe for me, since I hardly ever use measure expressions, in any case. > I had to combine eleven individual movements, each a separate file, > into one master score back in Fin2k4, and there's just no way I would > have been able to do that in any reasonable period of time without > Mass Copy. Well, I'll now try it out and see how much it helps. I'm not sure if getting the clef changes right is sufficient to justify the $60 expense for me if all the other little gotchas don't also work out. But I'll give it a chance first before I decide. And, thank goodness I was annoying enough to repost! Otherwise, I'd never have gotten any of these good answers! Did I just post at the wrong time of day or something? Or was my post too long, with no obvious question? -- David W. Fenton http://www.bway.net/~dfenton David Fenton Associates http://www.bway.net/~dfassoc _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
