On Jul 6, 2005, at 1:02 PM, David W. Fenton wrote:
It seems to me self-evident that linked parts are the way Finale should have been designed from the beginning. ...The data file is a database, and there are various report views for showing that data and subsets of that data.... Then the only question is whether or not the different views are completely independent of each other in terms of the "view" characteristics (i.e., layout) or if subviews (individual parts) inherit characteristics from the global view (score).
I agree--with this caveat: The Page Setup parameters must be independently configurable/savable for the score and for each individual part. Anything less is a deal-breaker as far as I'm concerned. As of now, I know of no program that allows more than one Page Setup configuration (at a time) per file, and I have therefore assumed that this restriction is unavoidable. Correct me if I'm wrong.
And while we're at it, would it be asking too much to figure out some way to transfer page setup data between platforms? I realize the operation is done completely differently in Mac vs. Windows, but information is information isn't it?--and should, therefore, somehow be retrievable and transferrable.
Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://home.netcom.com/~kallisti/ _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
