At 11:16 +0200 5/18/05, Michael Cook wrote :
- Create a new staff [...] put both staves at exactly the same height.
YES! very good solution.
Robert Patterson wrat:
I would not recommend aligning two staves as someone else described. Using Speedy in this setup is a nightmare.
i remember it being a total PAIN in previous versions, just tried it in 2005, it seems better. also there were problems with metatool-assigning note-attached expression, but this seems to work fine too. if you have "use 5-line" unchecked in the speedy menu, it helps somewhat, you can see immediately when you are entering in the wrong staff. if you encounter problems, the trick is to only overlap the staves once all the music and artics etc. are already entered, then it's fairly clean layout adjustments (with TGTools staff list manager of course!)
but despite the continued problem with time sigs, your suggestion of using the clef designer is also a good solution for me, since i wouldn't need a whole new set of clefs for the 4-line staff: it always takes a percussion clef, i use it for extended string passages sub. pont. (behind bridge), and for some percussion setups, never for specific pitches.
Andrew Stiller hath written:
use the normal 5-line staff, and hide the unwanted line with a white-out expression
clefs sit improperly on these staves as well, and since i use the 4- and 5-line in the same instrument, i really want the outer two staff lines of both styles to align; it looks stupid and unbalanced (and lacks elegance!) when suddenly one staffline disappears in the middle of a system and the positioning of the new style is not adjusted.
jef
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