On 15 May 2005 at 9:11, Robert Patterson wrote: > RegoR wrote: > > Does anybody know if there is a way to revert back to <default> > > system spacing for a single staff on a single page that has been > > moved. When the staves are moved individually, I see nothing > > anywhere that indicates the height or distance moved, like for > > example one sees when one moves lyrics up and down to accomodate a > > low note. >
> The easiest way would be to turn off optimization and turn it back on > (using any of the several available methods.) This will revert to the > "default" (actually, Scroll View spacing) for sure. Er, no, that does *not* revert to the default spacing -- it changes the formerly-optimized system's margins to replicate the same spacing it had when optimized and dragged. > If you do a lot with optimization, Tobias Giesen's Staff List Manager > plugin (part of TGTools) is absolutely indispensable. It displays and > allows you to edit the relative evpu spacing on each staff. It allows > you to add or remove staves individually. And, it allows you copy an > optimization on one system to any number of other systems. I've found that in parts, I don't find optimized staff movement to be the best way to adjust things. Instead, I think it's better to change the vertical margins, as this is something you can do for a single system or a group of systems without effecting others. The reason for that is that I find there are two competing layout problems, fitting music onto the page without crowding the top and bottom margins, and then also adjustments to individual staves to accommodate notes/expressions/etc. in extreme rangers. The ability to adjust multiple systems at one time in a quantifiable and systematic manner that isn't really available with positioning optimized systems. -- 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
