On 8 Jul 2005 at 12:25, Andrew Stiller wrote: > On Jul 7, 2005, at 7:47 PM, David W. Fenton wrote: > > >> The problem Andrew describes has nothing to do with libraries, and > >> it is even a problem going from OS 9 to OS X. To my knowledge there > >> is no easy work around. > > > > Please enlighten me as to what Andrew is talking about. > > > > Whatever it is, if there's a data structure in Finale that already > > stores the information, there is no reason to assume that this data > > structure will not be duplicated in part views, in order that parts > > can have independent settings. > > On the Mac, in any printable application, there is a File menu item > called Page Setup, wh. calls up a dialog in wh. printer settings are > stored. If, for example, you want to print a part on folded 11X17 > sheets, the Finale layout would prescribe ordinary letter-size paper, > but the Page Setup should prescribe 11X17. Obviously, one would often > want to do just this for parts, but not for the score they came from. > > My concern is that I have never heard of any Mac application in which > two different Page Setup configurations could be applied > simultaneously to the same file, and I therefore wonder whether it > might prove impossible to do such a thing in the Mac environment.
Since it's data that's stored in the document, all the programmers have to do is create a data structure in the document that stores the different settings. There is no need to assume that this would be ignored in a dynamic parts implementation. Can anyone say what the situation is with Sibelius 4? Surely they already implement independent page setup for parts and scores, all in one file? The question is, is it for all parts or can independent page setups be saved for each individual part (as you rightly require)? If you can have separate settings for score and parts as a whole in a single file (as I assume Sibelius already does), there is no technical reason to prevent allowing for storing independent page setups for each part. Now, technical capabilities aside, it's something that the programmers need to have hammered home that they need to implement, so in sending in a feature request for dynamic parts to MakeMusic, you need to stress that this is needed, just in case they don't think it through sufficiently. -- 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
