On 23 May 2005 at 21:44, shirling & neueweise wrote: > David W. Fenton wrote: > >it's using lots of shapes (though most are just text). > > 2004+ has new text features which make such things unnecessary. and > assigning the shape text-articulations will cause document bloat > (finale makes a new copy of shape expressions in the shape designer > each time you metatool-assign them).
I'm not metatool assigning any of the expressions. > i find it best to create libraries from new docs with no libraries. > you can copy-paste existing articulations you want in the library from > a specific measure in the source doc to copy over the definitions, > then all you have in the target doc are the ones you want to save to > the library. Well, I *did* create from scratch, but when the libraries were saved out of the fresh document, it lost parts of the definitions of the last two articulations. > i haven't had any problems using libraries once they are defined, i > can't recall ever having lost settings in any of the versions (mac) i > have used (back to 3.5.2). and i think i still have some single > expression libraries which were created in F1998. I've never encountered this problem before, either. But I've not used shapes for articulations much. > >I really hate Finale. Just about everything about it is substandard > >in some way or the other. > > what you mean like it giving up on setting time sigs (and maybe other > things i have yet to discover) at the 21st measure of a 250mm > copy-paste? That's far worse than what I'm encountering. I'm basically trying to prepare a bunch of pieces for performance (well, sight-reading sessions), and the pieces are ones that I've been working on since 1990. They reflect the various stages of my learning how to use Finale, as well as features implemented in new versions. I'm not redoing the measure-attached slurs from pre-3.5.2 files, as it's just way too much work. But I am trying to regularize my editorial additions, and that's why I'm using the shapes, because I want to put brackets around dynamics and articulations and have multiple characters in articulations. I thought I was experienced enough that this would all be quite easy, but it's been a real slog for any number of reasons, but almost all of them owing to the old-fashioned way in which the data is stored in the documents themselves. Cascading libraries stored outside the files would make this *much* easier for me to manage. -- 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
