David,
You don't have to use partial measure selection, *or* the apply
articulation dialog.
In the articulation tool, hold down the metatool for the articulation
you want, and then just drag enclose the notes you want.
I only wish note expressions worked like this too.
- Darcy
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On 14 Jul 2005, at 9:54 PM, David W. Fenton wrote:
On 14 Jul 2005 at 18:31, Tyler Turner wrote:
--- "David W. Fenton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Yes, I don't find this at all difficult in the
Sibelius 4 demo. I can
select and entire measure and apply an articulation
to all notes. Of
I can click a note and then shift-click any
additional notes, then
apply an articulation.
This latter allows non-contiguous selection, which
would be quite
useful to me in many cases. Yes, Finale allows you
to apply
articulations to a particular rhythmic value, but I
often need to
apply to some notes of a uniform rhythmic value
(such as a da-yat-dit-
dit pattern in 8th notes).
Sibelius actually makes this much more flexible and
easy than Finale.
I get quite a bit of use out of SmartFind and Paint
for this type of thing.
???
Well, that's a feature I'd never seen before, but it seems to me that
it hardly relates at all to the scenario I outlined.
First off, it only works for copying from existing music to music
that is similar. Useful as that is, it is completely orthogonal to
the problem I was describing.
Yes, if I had many measures of da-yat-dit-dit I could set up one
measure and the copy to all other measures that I wanted the same
articulation. I could also do that with simply mass copying
restricted to articulations and slurs.
But none of those speed up the setup of the original measure. If it's
got two da-yat-dit-dit's in it, in Sibelius, I can ctrl-click the
2nd, 3rd, 7th and 8th noteheads and apply the stacatto. I can't do
this in Finale without two steps. Of course, if I have multiple
homorhythmic staves one above the other with the same articulation, I
can select 2 & 3, and do it for all the staves, and apply the
articulation, then select 7 & 8 for the same set of staves and apply
the articulation.
So, that's something that likely Sibelius can't do without a copy
operation, or with fussy Ctrl-click mousing.
But it's only an advantage for homorhythmic passages in multiple
parts. The Sibelius non-contiguous note selection behavior is much
more user-friendly, in my opinion, than Finale's partial measure
selection, which I've never found very useful (because I can never
quite predict which subdivisions I'm allowed to select, and how to
get the particular partial measure selected that I need).
--
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David Fenton Associates http://www.bway.net/~dfassoc
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