On 6 Jul 2005 at 14:58, Darcy James Argue wrote:
> On 06 Jul 2005, at 12:21 PM, David W. Fenton wrote:
>
> > And it would also be nice, if, for instance, you could format your
> > linked parts, then save a single part out to a separate file, which
> > would no longer be connected to the score, so you could then make
> > changes to that part (like Darcy's change to the flute part of
> > printing the part at pitch and the score with an 8va transposition).
>
> Good idea, but doesn't what you write below cover the same thing?
Well, it all depends on what you want to unlink.
The implementation could be something like this:
ITEMS TO LINK
display positioning
Notes X X
Expressions X X
Articulations X X
Slurs X X
Beams X X
and so forth. Then you could unlink particular things.
But that would be massively more complicated to implement than say:
PART VIEWS IN THIS SCORE
Linked
Piano X
Flute
Violin X
Viola X
Cello X
To me, it would seem that it would be easier to just extract the
flute part to a separate file if it's not going to be linked.
Another option would be to extend the functionality of staff styles
so they could be defined differently for score and part view. That
would probably be the most flexible method for implementing your 8va
flute part.
But that would also require some kind of extension to staff styles.
Another option for implementing it would be to allow staff styles to
apply to only one view, and you'd then apply an 8ba transposition to
the score.
Then if it were possible to hide an expression or smart shape in a
part, then you could hide the 8va expression/smart shape in the part.
Having part views opens a whole host of different ways for adding
useful functionality to Finale, precisely because there's such a rich
set of tools there already.
> > Also, back when *I* was making suggestions for how to implement
> > this, I always said that it should be possible to *break* the link
> > between the part and score, if you wanted to. What if you could do
> > that with a staff style, selectively applied to the measures you
> > wanted to change in the part but not in the score? That would be
> > pretty cool.
>
> "Link/Unlink to score" would be great.
But I question the virtue of having it be a property of different
kinds of data. I don't see any utility in having an unlinked part
stored in the main score file, except for housekeeping purposes.
--
David W. Fenton http://www.bway.net/~dfenton
David Fenton Associates http://www.bway.net/~dfassoc
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